Staff Engineer - Data Platform Experience

About the role

As a Staff Engineer on the Data Platform Experience team, you'll help shape how Datadog engineering teams build, operate, and evolve products on the Observability Data Platform. You'll lead the design and delivery of shared platform capabilities that reduce developer friction, improve operational visibility, and enable engineering teams to move faster with confidence.

Key responsibilities

• Lead strategic engineering initiatives that improve how product teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform.
• Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cost intelligence, including cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations.
• Develop operational intelligence and self‑service tooling that helps engineering teams understand platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational efficiency.
• Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity across multiple products.
• Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards through hands‑on technical contributions.
• Participate in the team's on‑call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

Required profile

• You have experience designing and building large‑scale SaaS or cloud platforms with deep expertise in distributed systems.
• You have strong software architecture and system design skills and have successfully led complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• You have a platform engineering mindset and enjoy building reusable capabilities that enable other engineering organizations to move faster.
• You are an effective communicator who can influence technical direction without direct authority and collaborate across organizational boundaries.
• You have experience with backend technologies such as Java and Go, and distributed infrastructure including Kafka and Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability platforms, internal developer platforms, operational tooling, developer productivity solutions, or AI‑powered engineering workflows is beneficial but not required.

Required skills

• Java
• Go
• Kafka
• Kubernetes

What we offer

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee‑focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross‑departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture