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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
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Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications. Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe. The platforms are optimized for durability, high availability, low latency, internet-scale footprint and operability.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
- Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments
- Write in Go, Java Rust or C++, amongst other languages
- Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components
- Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
Who You Are:
- 6+ years of experience
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)
- You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…)
- You can get down to the low-level when needed
- You care about simple designs and performance
- You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
- You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
- Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.
This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
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Strength in Trust
OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society.
The Challenge
We are seeking a Principal Domain Architect who will define and drive the technical vision for AI-native and agentic systems across the platform. This role combines deep system architecture expertise, AI innovation, and strategic technology leadership to build scalable, reliable, and enterprise-grade solutions. The Principal Architect will work closely with Product, AI Platform teams, Architecture Guild, and engineering leadership to guide the design of complex distributed systems, influence the product roadmap, and drive the adoption of modern AI-native architectures across the organization. This leader is expected to identify emerging engineering advancements and translate them into strategic business opportunities, while improving engineering efficiency and technical excellence across products.
Your Mission
- Define and deliver architecture for AI-native agentic systems, enabling scalable and enterprise-grade multi-agent solutions.
- Create and evaluate failure mode scenarios for agentic workflows and incorporate architectural safeguards to ensure resilience and reliability.
- Provide deep expertise in LLM architectures, prompt engineering, RAG approaches, model selection, model training, LoRA knowledge, cost optimization, performance, security, and quality considerations.
- Drive technology transformation within the domain, enabling teams to adopt modern AI-native architectures and engineering practices.
- Stay current with rapid advancements in the agentic AI ecosystem, continuously evaluating emerging frameworks, tools, and architectural patterns.
- Champion technical exploration and spikes to test new ideas, validate feasibility, and guide long-term architectural decisions.
- Collaborate closely with the AI Platform team to influence platform capabilities and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
- Define metrics, evaluation frameworks, and observability standards for agentic systems.
- Provide architectural guidance and oversight to engineering squads, reviewing designs and co-creating solutions for complex initiatives.
- Act as a technology leader for the domain, influencing the Architecture Guild and driving best practices across engineering teams.
- Ensure teams adopt architecture governance standards and best practices.
- Champion technical controls and disciplined engineering practices to proactively manage architectural complexity and technical debt.
- Design and build high-performance distributed systems capable of supporting enterprise workloads.
- Recognize industry trends and proactively influence the product and engineering roadmap.
- Mentor engineers and architects, strengthening the organization’s technical leadership and architectural maturity.
Architecture Leadership
- Design large-scale distributed systems and AI-powered architectures that support multiple products and integrations.
- Create and maintain architecture models, system diagrams, and technical design documentation covering current and future state architecture.
- Conceive and evolve product and service architectures ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Ensure systems are designed for high availability, performance, and ease of operations.
Strategic Technology Leadership
- Contribute to company-level engineering strategy and evaluate the business impact of emerging technologies.
- Lead engineering initiatives to improve platform capabilities and engineering productivity.
- Participate in strategic programs that impact company-wide technical direction.
- Influence cross-organizational architecture decisions and collaborate with Director and VP level stakeholders.
Engineering Excellence
- Recommend technologies and frameworks that increase engineering productivity and system reliability.
- Oversee technical aspects of major initiatives and ensure high engineering standards.
- Mentor engineers and technical leaders to strengthen system design capabilities and engineering best practices.
You Are
- A highly skilled technical leader with strong architectural vision.
- An analytical thinker with strong problem-solving and system design skills.
- A strong communicator capable of influencing leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Passionate about mentoring engineers and improving technical excellence across the organization.
Your Experience Includes
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 16+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems.
- Extensive experience with Java-based development using REST APIs, Spring Boot, and microservices architectures.
- Strong experience designing distributed, asynchronous, and event-driven architectures.
- Expertise building low-latency, high-throughput data pipelines and large-scale data platforms.
- Experience with data streaming and event processing technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or Flink.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed algorithms, and system programming.
- Experience with fault-tolerant messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, AMQ, or ZeroMQ.
- Experience working with distributed data stores including MongoDB, Cassandra, CockroachDB, or CouchDB.
- Experience integrating applications with search platforms such as Elasticsearch or Solr.
- Proven experience mentoring engineers and building strong engineering practices.
- Strong ability to create and maintain architecture documentation and system design artifacts.
- Excellent leadership, verbal, and written communication skills.
Extra Impressive
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Experience running large-scale web services and distributed platforms.
- Deep understanding of system performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and high-availability architectures.
- Experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures.
- Experience designing graph-based data models and graph architectures.
- Experience building AI-native platforms or LLM-powered systems.
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington-based candidates: the annual base pay range for this role is listed below. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors, including location, job-related skills, work experience, and relevant education and/or training. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions, as well as benefits.
Where we Work
We are embracing an office-first culture, encouraging three days a week in office for most roles, with meaningful opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person.
Each role may have specific requirements or flexibility depending on the scope of the position, so we encourage you to verify this with your recruiter during your first interview.
Benefits
As an employee at OneTrust, you will be part of the OneTeam. That means you’ll receive support physically, mentally, and emotionally so that you can do your best work both in and out of the office. This includes comprehensive healthcare coverage, flexible PTO, equity RSUs, annual performance bonus opportunities, retirement account support, 14+ weeks of paid parental leave, career development opportunities, company-paid privacy certification exam fees, and much more. Specific benefits differ by country. For more information, talk to your recruiter or visit onetrust.com/careers.
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Your Data
You have the right to have your personal data updated or removed. You also have the right to have a copy of the information OneTrust holds about you. Further details about these rights are available on the website in our Privacy Overview. You can change your mind at any time and have your personal data removed from our database. In order to do this you must contact us and let us know you wish to be removed. The request should be made on the Data Subject Request Form.
Recruitment fraud warning: OneTrust is aware of scams involving false offers of employment with our company. The fraudulent jobs, interviews and job offers use fake websites, email addresses, group chat and text messages. Be aware that we never ask candidates for personal information, IDs or bank information during the interview process. We do not interview prospective candidates via instant message or group chat, and do not require candidates to purchase products or services, or process payments on our behalf as a condition of any employment offer. Please note that any legitimate interview availability requests will come directly from a OneTrust recruiter with an "@onetrust.com" email address. You may also receive legitimate emails from "@us.greenhouse-mail.io". Recruiters will only reach out to candidates who have applied for a role through our ATS (Greenhouse) or prospects via LinkedIn InMail. Job offers will come from a recruiter and may have a "@docusign.net" email address. For more information or if you have been targeted please reach out to askrecruiting@onetrust.com.
Our Commitment to You
When you join OneTrust you are stepping onto a launching pad — the countdown has begun. The destination? A career without boundaries working alongside a diverse and inclusive crew who is passionate about doing meaningful work. As a pioneer, your voice and expertise will help chart the direction of an entirely new category. Our commitment to putting people first starts with you. Your growth is part of the mission. Our goal is to give you the power to embark on the next phase of your uniquely, unique career.
OneTrust provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
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