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DatadogObservability & Security Platform

Senior Software Engineer

REDAPL Graph Engine

Location

France

Work type

Remote

Employment

Full Time

Experience

5-8 years

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

Posted

13h ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on enhancing Datadog's REDAPL platform, a critical system for tracking customer infrastructure resources. The engineer will build and optimize a query engine for efficient relationship traversals, contributing to the platform's scalability, resilience, and overall value. The position involves leading technical initiatives and collaborating with product teams.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us take REDAPL, our Referential Data Platform, to the next level. REDAPL is Datadog's main platform for tracking our customers' infrastructure resources and relationships. The platform enables products where customers can understand, keep track of, and gain insights into their infrastructure related to performance, cost, security, and more.

Many Datadog products use REDAPL today such Cloud Security Posture Management, Resource Catalog, Cloud Cost Management, and Service Catalog and others - REDAPL ingests more than 4.5mil updates/second.

As a Senior Engineer, you will drive, lead and collaborate on projects both inside and outside the platform. You can expect to contribute to key technical decisions relating to our data ingestion, processing, and query pipelines.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.


What You’ll Do:

  • Build a query engine that supports efficient relationship traversals for our most demanding workloads.

  • Contribute to design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform's value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams.

  • Lead and guide other engineers through architectural platform decisions

  • Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability and design solutions to address them

  • Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps

  • Collaborate with internal product teams to understand their requirements and how we plan for their product growth as they integrate and depend on REDAPL


Who You Are:

  • You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

  • You have worked extensively with multiple types of data stores.

  • You have contributed to initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for several years

  • You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns

  • You have significant back-end engineering experience and have built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale

Bonus points:

  • You have experience working with Graph Databases such as Neo4j, Memgraph, JanusGraph, ArangoDB, Amazon Neptune or PuppyGraph.

  • You have production-grade experience with Apache Iceberg

  • You have a solid grasp of query planning or better yet - contributed to a production-grade query engines or related projects (e.g. Trino, Calcite, Substrait, DataFusion, etc) ideally demonstrated through open-source contributions or PMC membership on projects.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.


Benefits and Growth:

  • Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.

  • Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .

  • Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn

  • Competitive global benefits

  • Continuous professional development

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Updated 13h ago

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Query Engine Development • 1+ yrs
Relationship Traversal • 1+ yrs
Data Ingestion • 1+ yrs
Data Processing • 1+ yrs
Query Pipelines • 1+ yrs
System Risk Identification • 1+ yrs
Reliability Design • 1+ yrs
Distributed Systems • 1+ yrs
Back-end Engineering • 1+ yrs
Query Planning • 1+ yrs
Scalability • 1+ yrs
Performance Optimization • 1+ yrs
Cost Efficiency • 1+ yrs
Resilience • 1+ yrs
Operability • 1+ yrs
Architectural Design • 1+ yrs
Data Stores • 1+ yrs
Graph Databases • 1+ yrs
Neo4j • 1+ yrs
Memgraph • 1+ yrs
JanusGraph • 1+ yrs
ArangoDB • 1+ yrs
Amazon Neptune • 1+ yrs
PuppyGraph • 1+ yrs
Apache Iceberg • 1+ yrs
Trino • 1+ yrs
Calcite • 1+ yrs
Substrait • 1+ yrs
DataFusion • 1+ yrs
Leadership • 1+ yrs
Collaboration • 1+ yrs
Problem Solving • 1+ yrs
Prioritization • 1+ yrs
Open Source Contributions • 1+ yrs

Experience

5-8 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Software Engineering

Industries

Technology & IT

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationFrance
Work typeRemote
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleMedium7/10
physicalLow1/10
cognitiveHigh8/10
executionHigh8/10
creativityHigh8/10
uncertaintyMedium7/10
communicationMedium7/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

Datadog

Team size

Growing team

Location

France

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.

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Senior Software Engineer

FranceFull Time