The Dynamic Instrumentation / Live Debugging team is building an exciting, brand new product that helps developers quickly troubleshoot and diagnose bugs and performance issues in complex distributed systems - bringing code-level observability into the hands of every developer. We're investing heavily in experiences that allow developers to dynamically instrument their applications and perform live debugging, in production, with the smallest possible performance overhead and rock-solid reliability. Come and join a team that cares about building software the right way.
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.
What you’ll do:
Manage the Dynamic Code Instrumentation team (8 runtime engineers), developing their skills and helping advance their careers.
Write a significant amount of code for new and existing instrumentations
Work with our security teams to ensure we are delivering a sensitive product with top-notch security.
Collaborate with our AI Code Gen team and IDE Integration team to create meaningful new customer experiences
Ensure the team consistently ships high quality code and architecture.
Help make sure our instrumentations behave consistently across the different programming languages we support, and are performant and reliable
Run a lightweight agile process to pace and track what we work on and deliver high quality work.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Who You Are:
You are an excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to lead high-performing teams
You have a keen interest in working with low-level runtime internals and/or compilers.
You have significant knowledge of the inner working of at least one runtime environment (JVM, Python, .NET CLR, Javascript / v8, Ruby, or Golang / ebpf)
You've written high-performance, concurrent applications and squeezed every bit of performance from your system. You've written clean, correct, well-tested, performant, idiomatic code
You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
Bonus Points:
You've worked on the runtime or the compiler for a popular programming language or a developer tool such as an IDE or static code analysis.
You have experience building cross-platform software
Benefits and Growth:
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Competitive global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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