Senior Software Engineer – REDAPL Graph Engine

Job Overview

The position being offered is for a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the capabilities of REDAPL, the Essential Referential Data Platform developed by Datadog. This platform plays a crucial role in monitoring customers' infrastructure resources, providing insight into various operational aspects such as performance, cost, and security. As a Senior Engineer, you will engage in leading and collaborating on key projects that influence data ingestion, processing, and query pipelines.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will undertake various professional responsibilities:

• Build a robust query engine that supports efficient relationship traversals tailored for demanding workloads.
• Contribute to high-visibility projects that enhance the platform's value, resilience, and scalability, collaborating with multiple teams.
• Lead and guide other engineers in making significant architectural decisions for the platform.
• Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, designing effective solutions.
• Collaborate with internal product teams to understand their requirements and assist in planning their product growth.

Required Skills

To excel in this role, candidates should possess the following skills and qualifications:

• A BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive experience working with various types of data stores.
• Proven track record in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment.
• Experience leading technical initiatives with strong focuses on performance, cost efficiency, and resilience.
• Significant background in back-end engineering, particularly in building and operating distributed systems at scale.

Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with Graph Databases such as Neo4j, Memgraph, JanusGraph, Amazon Neptune, or PuppyGraph.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg in a production context.
• A solid understanding of query planning and experience contributing to production-grade query engines or related projects (e.g., Trino, Calcite, Substrait, DataFusion).

Benefits and Growth Opportunities

Datadog emphasizes a strong office culture and provides a hybrid workplace model to support work-life balance. The chosen candidate will enjoy:

• Access to tools for software engineers, enhancing development speed.
• Opportunities to influence product direction significantly.
• A collaborative environment with skilled and supportive teammates.
• Competitive global benefits and continuous professional development.
• Note that benefits may vary based on employment country and nature of employment.

Company Overview

Founded in the AI era, Datadog is a leading observability and security platform. It unites visibility across technology stacks, helping businesses manage complexity efficiently. The platform leverages AI to proactively detect and resolve issues, thereby optimizing a company's infrastructure. With a customer base that includes Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog remains committed to improving operational speed and confidence through innovative solutions.

Commitment to Equality

Datadog practices equal employment opportunity without bias based on race, religion, gender, age, citizenship, and other protected characteristics. They invite applications from qualified individuals without regard to criminal history as per legal requirements. The company also ensures accessibility in their processes and is willing to help applicants with accommodation requests during the application process.

Closing Thoughts

This Senior Software Engineer position, situated across several European locations including the UK, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland, presents a significant opportunity for candidates looking to make an impact in a dynamic engineering environment. If you are passionate about technology and eager to contribute to exciting projects that drive company success, this might be the ideal role for you.

This job offer was originally published on jobicy.com