Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Bordeaux, France +9 · Remote · Dev Eng

Datadog is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their platform team. The role involves solving scaling bottlenecks, deploying new features, fixing production issues, and designing scalable architectures. While the company operates in the AI era and encourages leveraging AI tools for coding and problem-solving, the core responsibilities of this role are focused on building and scaling their observability platform, not directly on developing AI models or agents.

What you'd actually do

  1. Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
  2. Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
  3. Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
  4. Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic
  5. With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Skills

Required

  • significant experience in one or more languages
  • code simplicity and performance
  • design architecture to solve problems at high scale
  • use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output

Nice to have

  • BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
  • push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

What the JD emphasized

  • significant experience in one or more languages
  • You value code simplicity and performance
  • You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
  • You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output