About the position
Datadog is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to join our Governance group. In this role, you’ll drive the technical direction that directly addresses our largest customers' pain points. This will involve driving a unified approach to governing access, usage and compliance across the Datadog platform. You’ll lead high-impact initiatives including: Creating consistent and scalable tag management across Datadog telemetry. Developing a flexible policy engine allowing customers to set guardrails related to compliance, usage, and cost management. Multi-org governance allowing admins to easily manage hundreds of orgs. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design and engineering teams across Datadog to define, prototype and scale these initiatives. 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
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop a flexible platform that lets customers define policies, detect misconfigurations, and take action.
- Drive high-priority, high-visibility projects that enhance the overall Datadog experience for our largest customers.
- Contribute strategically to short- and long-term roadmap development.
Requirements
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Experienced at aligning multiple engineering teams around shared technical strategies.
- Strong background architecting large-scale backend systems.
- Product-minded with deep empathy for customer experience and operational excellence.
- Effective communicator, comfortable presenting your ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Passionate about growing and mentoring engineers.
Benefits
- Competitive global benefits.
- Continuous professional development.
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits.
- 401(k) plan and match.
- Paid time off.
- Fitness reimbursements.
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan.
