Software Engineer - Fabric RPC

The Fabric Remote Procedure Call (RPC) team at Datadog provides safe, reliable and scalable internal service-to-service communication for Datadog’s engineering teams. In this role, you’ll develop and maintain data plane components and network control plane integrations for east-west internal service communication for the services that power Datadog’s products.

What You’ll Do:

• Work with internal engineers and open source maintainers to build features and optimizations that reduce overhead of doing high-throughput network communications at scale
• Provide both out-of-the-box best practices experience for users as well as deep dives into Linux, Kubernetes, Cilium, gRPC, and related systems

Who You Are:

• Someone who can operate independently, methodically experiment, rapidly iterate, and has no fear of failure
• Experienced in Golang, gRPC, xDS, Envoy, Cilium, eBPF, Kubernetes, Linux and data center networking concepts (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, routing, NAT)
• Bonus: Prior experience with Kubernetes controllers, gRPC, Envoy or other load balancers