Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (ODP Governance)

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (ODP Governance) ODP Governance is a cross platform team working in the biggest Datadog products (Metrics, Logs, APM) with the mission of giving customers governance tools to control costs and data hygiene of their telemetry. Our team builds cost controls and governance tools that help Datadog’s enterprise customers manage data ingestion, reduce unwanted data, and prioritize the telemetry that delivers the most value. Our scope spans multiple Datadog products, including Metrics, Events, Logs, and APM. As a backend engineering team, we partner with these product teams to address recurring customer challenges that create operational friction, increase costs, and contribute to churn. We also identify opportunities to extend successful capabilities across products—for example, adapting a control developed for Logs to support APM. 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 performant high scale distributed systems to handle the load of Datadog’s biggest products Build relationships across teams and independently seek out the information needed to move work forward. Become productive in unfamiliar systems and navigate ambiguity. Anticipate technical dependencies and integration challenges early. Recognize when a solution could benefit another product and take the initiative to explore it. Connect engineering decisions to customer value, cost efficiency, and usability. Who You Are: You have 6+ years of experience You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++) Distributed systems engineer with experience building high performance large scale systems. Excellent communication skills (English). High proactivity and cross-team collaboration experience You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building…