Workplace
hybrid
Employment
Internship
Published
Aug 11, 2026
Closes
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The role
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:
• 6+ years of experience
• 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
Requirements
Department: Dev Eng