We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join Datadog’s API Platform group. This team owns the infrastructure and tooling behind our public API surface, which spans more than 7,000 endpoints and supports a vast range of customers and integrations. As a Staff Engineer, you will have the opportunity to contribute to a broad set of projects across multiple teams that support API routing, reliability, web frameworks, and large-scale automation.
This is a high-impact, highly visible role. You will work with leaders and engineers across Datadog to drive major initiatives, influence system design, and ensure the performance and resilience of critical systems. You will collaborate with teams that build and evolve internal frameworks, traffic shaping and routing logic, reliability tooling, and developer enablement for API infrastructure.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

• Lead technical direction across multiple teams spanning API routing, rate limiting, frameworks, reliability tooling, and infrastructure automation.
• Design and evolve edge-layer systems that handle traffic before it reaches backend services, including routing, rate limiting, audit logging, WAF, and other protective layers with strong reliability requirements.
• Contribute to the evolution of internal frameworks in Go and Python used by thousands of engineers, working closely with engineers across product teams
• Lead efforts to make it easier and safer to provision services in new data centers by building automation tools and working across opinionated teams
• Support reliability for over 7,000 public APIs, including ownership of our load testing infrastructure and Terraform provider
• Help define and implement best practices for testing, observability, and resilience across the API stack
• Mentor engineers and shape the long-term architecture and direction of the API Platform group
• Collaborate on cross-company initiatives such as MCP servers, A2A protocol, and long-term reliability requirements and improvements.