Staff Software Engineer - Logs Observability Pipelines [New York]

Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of their Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Logs offering. This role focuses on building and scaling systems for processing, routing, and storing observability data within customer-managed infrastructure, while also leading cross-team initiatives and improving system performance.

Responsibilities:

• Make customer-controlled deployments feel like a managed Datadog product: deployment, upgrades, configuration, observability, diagnostics, reliability, and secure operation across diverse customer cloud environments
• Build and scale high-throughput systems for log processing, routing, and transformation across distributed environments
• Lead cross-team initiatives, aligning engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-team projects
• Design and implement software that runs reliably that customers deploy and operate within their own cloud infrastructure
• Improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through thoughtful trade-off analysis and capacity planning
• Contribute hands-on to critical code paths, debugging, and deployment challenges in customer environments