Staff Software Engineer - Database Monitoring

Key Skills

Database, DataDog, Machine learning techniques, NoSQL, Python Programming, RDBMS, SQL

Job Description

The Database Monitoring team at Datadog is building an industry-revolutionizing product to automatically pinpoint our customers’ database problems and proactively improve query performance. Join a successful product team transforming the way our industry operates data stores. Some examples of projects you will execute on include:

• Launch a greenfield product for database analytics powered by logs, traces, and metrics
• Launch features to detect problems and take automated actions (e.g. terminate a query)
• Enable fast growth with 1-click installation of the DBM Agent
• Architect a distributed pipeline to monitor the health of millions of Datadog Agents on customer databases in the cloud and on-prem
• Develop generative AI tooling to recommend query and data model rewrites
• Design and build workflows to automatically create PRs for query performance improvements

What You’ll Do:

• Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects like the ones described above
• Provide technical leadership to the Database Monitoring team and peer teams
• Be a driving force in growing the product’s adoption and revenue by 10X
• Define enduring architectures to support a rapidly growing team and user base

Who You Are:

• You have significant back-end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale
• You are excited about the opportunity to work with customers directly, understand their workflows, and build industry-leading experiences for them
• You are well-versed in database ecosystems and have hands-on experience working with relational databases in production environments
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns

If these sound exciting to you, let’s talk!

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.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$234,000—$300,000 USD