Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
Datadog•Bordeaux, France; Grenoble, France; Lyon, France; Madrid, Spain; Montpellier, France; Nantes, France; Paris, France; Sophia Antipolis, France; Tel Aviv, Israel
Full-time3-7
👁️ 0 views•📝 0 applications•Posted 9/7/2026•Expires 10/12/2026
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Job Description
Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications. Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe. The platforms are optimized for durability, high availability, low latency, internet-scale footprint and operability. 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: Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments Write in Go, Java, Rust or C++, amongst other languages Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++) You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…) <span styl
Required Skills
GoJavaRustC++KafkaRedisCassandraElasticsearchDistributed SystemsFault-tolerant systemsHorizontally scalable solutionsMulti-tenant environmentsBackend programmingHigh durabilityLow latencyOpen-source componentsReal-time data pipelinesHigh availability systemsInternet-scale systemsOperability
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