Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (ODP Governance)

Location: Hybrid in Paris, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Sophia Antipolis, or Madrid.

Company

Datadog provides an observability and security platform that gives businesses unified visibility across applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security.

What you will do

• Build performant, high-scale distributed systems supporting Datadog’s largest products.
• Develop governance and cost-control tools for telemetry data across Metrics, Events, Logs, and APM.
• Build relationships across teams and independently gather the information needed to move work forward.
• Become productive in unfamiliar systems and navigate ambiguity.
• Anticipate technical dependencies and integration challenges early.
• Identify opportunities to extend successful capabilities across products and connect engineering decisions to customer value, cost efficiency, and usability.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience.
• Significant backend programming experience in one or more of Go, Java, Rust, or C++.
• Experience as a distributed systems engineer building high-performance, large-scale systems.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• High proactivity and experience with cross-team collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.

Nice to have

• Motivation to push the boundaries of AI in software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.
• Interest in leveraging AI tools to enhance coding, problem-solving, and software development, or willingness to learn how.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace emphasizing office relationships, creativity, collaboration, and work-life harmony.
• New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program, Community Guilds, and Inclusion Talks.
• Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents aged 6+, plus competitive global benefits.