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Staff Software Engineer - Database Monitoring

Datadog

SalaryUSD $234,000~$300,000
Role brief

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!