Senior Software Engineer Autonomous Ops & Maintenance (ATOM)

The Autonomous Ops & Maintenance (ATOM)Team is developing an innovative platform that leverages artificial intelligence and automated systems to empower engineering groups in safely executing complex operations and software maintenance. Their primary objective is to minimize repetitive toil while delivering the precise visibility oversight and trust necessary to run automated solutions in mission-critical environments.

Consider it an intelligent virtual collaborator operating alongside development and infrastructure engineers directly offloading routine operational overhead that currently requires manual intervention.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us design and scale our foundational this role you will synthesize vast technical datasets into rich structured knowledge engineer AI-driven components capable of analyzing intricate operational workflows and construct highly reliable systems to execute automated modifications seamlessly.

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 Youll Do:

• Lead a greenfield initiative from inception to scale shaping foundational product architecture engaging directly with users to refine early concepts
• Build mission-critical solutions that customers depend on daily
• Build fault-tolerant horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments

Who You Are:

• You have 6 years of experience
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You are proficient in Go
• You are comfortable building and operating production services end to end: You will independently own features and components work through ambiguous technical problems and be responsible for the reliability observability and operational quality of what you ship
• You have experience with large scale distributed systems
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate critique and refine AI-generated output
  
  
• Bonus Point: You have experience with Kubernetes workflow orchestration systems or building AI agents

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

Benefits and Growth: (Describe opportunities offered here)

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks our internal panel discussions
• Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
• Competitive global benefits

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