Senior Software Engineer - Language Foundations

About the position

The Go Tools team is part of the Language Foundations organization. Our team works on building tooling and automation in support of the Go developer experience at Datadog. As a software engineer on the Go Tools team, you will be responsible for shaping the way Go is used across Datadog by advancing our tools, promoting best practices, and solving complex development challenges. 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.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and advocate for Go language best practices across engineering teams.
• Keep Datadog’s Go ecosystem modern and efficient by researching and adopting relevant new language features, tools, and libraries.
• Triage and resolve complex tooling or performance issues.
• Build internal tools and automation to enhance Go developer productivity and confidence in making code changes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify developer pain points and deliver targeted improvements to the Go development workflow.

Requirements

• You practice simplicity as a means to produce stable and maintainable software.
• Experienced in evolving and maintaining large-scale Go codebases and deeply understand software lifecycle challenges.
• A strong communicator and mentor who amplifies the impact of other engineers by sharing knowledge and improving tooling.
• A strategic thinker who can anticipate and manage the broader impact of technical decisions across a large engineering organization.
• You believe in using your own tools to better understand and improve them.
• BS/MS/PhD degree in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience.

Benefits

• 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