Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Bordeaux, France; Paris, France
Dev Eng
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About the Role

At Datadog in the Technology space, Observe, Secure, and Optimize Modern Cloud Infrastructure at Scale.

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are building the best platform in the world for engineers to understand, scale, and protect their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, application tracing, and security insights for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></em></p>

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<p><strong>What You’ll Do: </strong></p>

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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service</span></li>

<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags</span></li>

<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns</span></li>

<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic</span></li>

<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next</span><span style="font-weight: 40

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Frequently Asked Questions About Working at Datadog

Common questions candidates ask about this role and Datadog's workplace

Datadog is a leading Cloud company that provides monitoring and analytics solutions. The company operates a global presence with headquarters in New York serving as the primary operational base for key executive leadership and corporate functions including engineering, product, sales, and executive leadership. Datadog maintains additional offices across the Americas in Boston, Denver, San Francisco, and throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, and South America.

Please review the specific job listing or contact Datadog's recruiting team for details on remote or hybrid work options for this role.

Salary information may vary by role and location. Please check the specific job listing or discuss compensation during the interview process.

Datadog is an established organization in its industry. The company focuses on maintaining a supportive workplace culture for all employees.

Key benefit categories include: Financial Benefits, Health & Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Community & Growth. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Collaborative Problem-Solving and Ownership Mentality and Continuous Learning Culture.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Empower Ownership and Accountability and Champion Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

Datadog has a supportive and collaborative culture, recognized as a loved place to work by its team members.

Datadog currently has 444 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Dev Eng, Engineering Interns, Commercial Sales. You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/datadog/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact Datadog's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.

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