Software Engineer II - Distributed Systems (Metrics Intake)

at  DataDog

Metrics Intake is a fundamental team at Datadog reliably providing our platforms downstream services hundreds of millions of data points per second with low latency. Members of the Metrics Intake team play a direct role in allowing customers a view into real-time mission critical observability metrics through the ingestion, normalization, and resolution of timeseries data. Engineers with a background or interest in the challenges of stream processing, failure resiliency, sharding strategies and the efficient handling of high volume data are encouraged to apply.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

• Build and operate distributed, high-throughput, real-time data pipelines
• Use Go, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra, Postgres and other open-source components
• Own meaningful parts of our service, have a direct impact, grow with the company
• Remove scaling and reliability bottlenecks in critical services