Staff Engineer, Compute (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid in Dublin, Ireland; Madrid, Spain; or Paris, France

Company

Datadog provides a cloud monitoring and observability platform and operates large-scale infrastructure supporting cloud-native workloads.

What you will do

• Lead the technical direction of capacity management and workload placement for a Kubernetes platform spanning more than 100,000 virtual machines.
• Design and build systems that schedule and deploy engineering workloads across regions while balancing capacity, reliability, and performance.
• Develop production software in Go to improve Kubernetes platform capabilities, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Evolve multi-region and multi-cloud capacity orchestration across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
• Use operational data and capacity signals to forecast growth and improve infrastructure decisions.

Requirements

• Significant experience designing and operating large-scale Kubernetes infrastructure or platform systems.
• Strong software engineering and programming skills in Go or a comparable systems programming language.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and an understanding of distributed cloud infrastructure.
• Strong systems thinking and experience solving infrastructure, scheduling, or capacity management challenges.
• Experience with operational data, capacity forecasting, or analytical approaches that inform engineering decisions.
• Proven technical leadership across teams and the ability to influence architecture without direct management authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace focused on collaboration and work-life harmony.
• Competitive benefits package, varying by country of employment and employment terms.
• New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Career development and pathing opportunities.
• Structured onboarding, internal mentoring, and cross-departmental buddy programs.
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.