Senior Software Engineer - REDAPL Graph Engine

ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team and play a key role in the development and growth of REDAPL, our Referential Data Platform. As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for driving, leading, and collaborating on projects both within and outside the platform, contributing to key technical decisions, and working closely with internal product teams to understand their requirements and plan for their product growth. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Senior Software Engineer, your primary responsibilities will include: - Building a query engine that supports efficient relationship traversals for our most demanding workloads - Contributing to design and driving high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform's value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams - Leading and guiding other engineers through architectural platform decisions - Identifying potential system risks and trends in reliability and design solutions to address them - Providing input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps - Collaborating with internal product teams to understand their requirements and plan for their product growth as they integrate and depend on REDAPL WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - A Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field or equivalent experience - Extensive experience working with multiple types of data stores - Contributions to initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for several years - Leadership experience in impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns - Significant back-end engineering experience and a proven track record of building and operating distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale WHY REMOTE Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace to ensure our team members can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. As a remote employee, you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere and enjoy a better work-life balance. BENEFITS As a Senior Software Engineer at Datadog, you can expect: - Competitive global benefits - Continuous professional development - Opportunities to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself, and use the tools we build to accelerate our development - A lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business - Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn