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Staff Software Engineer - Action Platform (EMEA)

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Hybrid
Paris, Île-de-France
Mid level
Hybrid
Paris, Île-de-France
Mid level
The Staff Software Engineer will enhance and secure the Action Platform by leading projects that improve system scalability and reliability, collaborating on architectural decisions, and identifying system risks. They will work with distributed systems and provide support for integrations with third-party systems.
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We're looking for a talented Staff Engineer to help us secure, scale and innovate our Action Platform. Our platform powers integrations with third-party systems for various products, including Workflow Automation, App Builder, and more. These actions range from sending a Slack message, updating an AWS S3 bucket, to deleting a Kubernetes pod. Additionally, we support Private Actions, which run on customer infrastructure via a Go runner, while Cloud Actions are handled by TypeScript Action this role, you'll work across two key teams: API Team: responsible for orchestration and scaling of our infrastructure and cloud services with a focus on security posture and threat mitigation & Runtime Team: focused on the development and lifecycle of our action platform runners, enhancing the Action Developer Experience, and supporting the UI components delivered to our clients, and ensuring secure execution environments.We're looking for someone with first-hand exposure to security, as the role involves delivering secure, scalable solutions that are critical to both our customers and Datadog. If you're passionate about working on impactful, scalable systems with a strong emphasis on security, we'd love to hear from you!
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.
What You'll Do:

  • Design and drive high priority, high visibility projects that increase the platform's resilience and scalability across multiple teams
  • Lead and guide others through architectural decisions for new and existing distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems
  • Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, and design solutions to address them
  • Provide input on prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps
  • Collaborate closely with partner platforms that integrate and depend on the event platform to provide critical capabilities to their customers


Who You Are:

  • You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for 2+ years.
  • Passionate about performance and efficiency optimization.
  • You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, reliability, and accuracy are first-order concerns
  • You have a reliability-oriented mindset and care deeply about designing and building resilient architectures
  • You have significant back end programming experienced and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale


Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits


Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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