Senior Software Engineer - REDAPL Graph Engine

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer will help evolve REDAPL, Datadog's platform for tracking infrastructure resources and relationships. This role involves driving technical decisions for data ingestion, processing, and query pipelines to support high-scale workloads. You will collaborate across teams to ensure the platform's scalability, resilience, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Build a query engine that supports efficient relationship traversals for our most demanding workloads.
• Contribute to design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform's value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams.
• Lead and guide other engineers through architectural platform decisions.
• Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability and design solutions to address them.
• Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with internal product teams to understand their requirements and how we plan for their product growth as they integrate and depend on REDAPL.

Required skills

• Back-end engineering
• Distributed systems
• Data stores
• Infrastructure engineering

Nice to have

• Graph Databases
• Neo4j
• Memgraph
• JanusGraph
• ArangoDB
• Amazon Neptune
• PuppyGraph
• Apache Iceberg
• Query planning
• Trino

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field
• Equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Continuous professional development

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.