The Datadog Agent is software that runs on customer infrastructure and supports a wide range of platforms. It efficiently collects observability data from millions of hosts and sends them to Datadog, where our customers can analyze their monitoring and performance data. OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source, vendor-neutral observability solution that allows teams to monitor their applications and services in a standardized format.
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who will help us ensure that OpenTelemetry users deploying the open-source Datadog Agent can get access to all of Datadog’s industry-leading observability solutions and can continue to leverage OpenTelemetry-specific capabilities (via the embedded OTel Collector). Come join us to unlock new observability capabilities across millions of Agents, for technical customers who care deeply about what you build.
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• Develop high-performance OTel observability pipelines in the Datadog Agent, running on customers’ infrastructures and targeting a large number of platforms / environments / deployment models, with Datadog-specific and upstream OpenTelemetry contributions
• Simplify customers’ onboarding and management of OTel pipelines with Fleet Management capabilities
• Review community contributions to Datadog-related components of OTel
• Take part in investigating and fixing issues with the internal production deployment of the Datadog Agent
• With your team, be a driving force in product decisions and plan the most important projects to work on next