Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Scalability, Madrid

Overview

Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Scalability

At Datadog, were building the platform that enables engineers to monitor, secure, and scale their infrastructure and applications - powering reliability and performance across thousands of companies. We ingest trillions of data points each day and tackle challenges of scale, speed, and resilience.

Were looking for experienced backend engineers who want to take ownership of critical services and deepen their expertise in distributed systems. Whether youve built APIs, pipelines, or backend tooling, this role is a chance to grow your impact while learning how to design and operate high-scale, high-availability systems that support observability and security products used by engineers around the world.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reliable backend services that handle high-throughput, globally distributed workloads
• Own core components that power products relied on by thousands of engineering teams worldwide
• Collaborate with other experienced engineers to evolve system architecture with a focus on scalability and resilience
• Learn and apply distributed systems design patterns in a production setting
• Ship production-grade code in languages like Go, Python, or Java
• Contribute to team culture through code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentorship of peers and junior engineers

Qualifications

Why Join

Benefits and Growth

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

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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Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust

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