Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous Ops & Maintenance

About the role

The Autonomous Ops & Maintenance team is building an AI-driven platform to automate complex software maintenance and operational tasks. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design foundational architecture and develop reliable, scalable systems to offload routine operational overhead for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a greenfield initiative from inception to scale, shaping foundational product architecture and engaging with users.
• Build mission-critical, fault-tolerant, and horizontally scalable solutions for multi-tenant environments.
• Synthesize technical datasets into structured knowledge and engineer AI-driven components for operational workflows.
• Own features and components end-to-end, ensuring reliability, observability, and operational quality.

Required skills

• Go
• Distributed systems
• AI coding tools
• Production services

Nice to have

• Kubernetes
• Workflow orchestration
• AI agents

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field
• Equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• New hire stock equity
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Professional development
• Product training
• Mentor and buddy program
• Mental health benefits

About the Company

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.