Senior Software Engineer - Release Platforms

Paris, France; Madrid, Spain

The Release Platforms team builds the systems that enable developers to reliably ship their code to production every day. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will both write code and help drive the overall technical vision of our deployment tooling. You will partner with product and infrastructure teams around Datadog to understand how they deploy their applications so we can effectively scale and evolve the systems we provide to Datadog engineers.

What You’ll Do:

1. Write code and help drive the overall technical vision of our deployment tooling.
2. Partner with product and infrastructure teams around Datadog to understand how they deploy.
3. Effectively scale and evolve the systems we provide to Datadog engineers.
4. Help evolve our software release workflow management platform from a set of mature tools into an extensible platform.
5. Set and raise the technical bar for building fault-tolerant distributed systems.
6. Help scale the system to support growth into new and more complex environments.

Who You Are:

1. 5+ years of software development experience.
2. Experience building tools to deploy software reliably at large scale.
3. Experience building deployment tools for other engineers.
4. Enjoy mentoring other engineers.
5. Experience with Kubernetes, Golang, and systems like Helm, Terraform, Argo, Flux, or other cloud-native CI/CD platforms.
6. Experience as a system reliability engineer.

Benefits and Growth:

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