As a Staff Engineer on the Data Platform Experience team, you'll help shape how Datadog engineering teams build, operate, and evolve products on the Observability Data Platform. You'll lead the design and delivery of shared platform capabilities that reduce developer friction, improve operational visibility, and enable engineering teams to move faster with confidence. This role combines deep distributed systems expertise with technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing platform strategy while remaining hands-on in the code. You'll have the opportunity to solve company-wide challenges spanning cost intelligence, operational tooling, platform health, and developer experience. 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: Lead strategic engineering initiatives that improve how product teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform. Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cost intelligence, including cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations. Develop operational intelligence and self-service tooling that helps engineering teams understand platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational efficiency. Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity across multiple products. Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards through hands-on technical contributions. Participate in the team's on-call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence. Who You Are: You have experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms with deep expertise i
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As a Staff Engineer on Datadog's Compute – Disruption and Workload Placement team, you'll help define how our Kubernetes fleet scales to meet the demands of rapidly growing AI and cloud-native workloads. You'll work on the systems that ensure engineering teams have the right compute capacity, in the right region, at the right time across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. This is a highly technical, high-impact role where you'll shape the future of capacity orchestration, influence platform architecture, and solve infrastructure challenges that directly support Datadog's continued growth. 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: Lead the technical direction of capacity mana
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