Datadog

Staff Software Engineer, API Platform

Datadog

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudGoNode.jsPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Own infrastructure and tooling behind Datadog’s public API surface spanning more than 7,000 endpoints
  • Lead technical direction across multiple teams spanning API routing, rate limiting, frameworks, reliability tooling, and infrastructure automation
  • Design and evolve edge-layer systems that handle traffic before it reaches backend services, including routing, rate limiting, audit logging, WAF, and other protective layers
  • Contribute to internal frameworks in Go and Python used by thousands of engineers
  • Build automation tools and lead efforts to provision services in new data centers across opinionated teams
  • Support reliability for over 7,000 public APIs, including ownership of load testing infrastructure and a Terraform provider
  • Define and implement best practices for testing, observability, and resilience across the API stack
  • Mentor engineers and shape the long-term architecture and direction of the API Platform group
  • Collaborate on cross-company initiatives such as MCP servers, A2A protocol, and long-term reliability improvements

Requirements

  • You have 10 or more years of engineering experience with a strong background in backend systems and platform infrastructure
  • You bring expertise in site reliability engineering, backend architecture, or frameworks development
  • You have strong software development experience and are comfortable working in a Go-heavy codebase
  • You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving work across multiple teams with differing priorities
  • You enjoy mentoring, guiding teams through complex infrastructure problems, and leading high-impact projects end to end