Software Engineer II Demo Engineering

Demo Engineering is a full-stack software engineering and operations team. Our work helps to articulate the Datadog vision and product value to our largest prospects customers and conference attendees hundreds of times every week. We build and own internal systems and tools that enable various teams to create transformative product demos quickly and easily. We make the experience of creating Datadog demos simpler more pleasant and more productive. Our engineering culture values pragmatism honesty and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

As a Full-stack Engineer on the Demo Engineering team you will be responsible for building and maintaining business critical demo environments and applications that Pre and Post Sales Engineering Product Management Marketing Events and Support use on a daily basis around the globe. This is a rare opportunity to work across a uniquely diverse technology stack including all three major cloud providers and all languages supported by our APM product.  

What You’ll Do:

• Design develop deploy monitor maintain and own business critical infrastructure and software to power the Datadog demo environment empowering hundreds of individuals to deliver demos daily
• Work cross-functionally with subject matter experts in engineering teams such as data science security tracing etc. to ensure that upcoming Datadog features are demo-ready and collaborate closely with product management and sales engineers to build demo solutions for all aspects of the Datadog platform
• Consistently ships high quality code and architecture
• Become a Datadog expert understanding the platform in detail to best deliver demo related solutions support other Datadog employees using those solutions and using Datadog to monitor the health of those solutions
• Help keep our demo solutions reliable available and fast by responding to on-call alerts investigating issues performing necessary operations and delivering fixes
• Support our internal customers by helping answer questions about the demo environment troubleshooting tracking feature requests and bugs escalating issues and reporting or calling incidents when necessary

Who You Are:

• 3+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering with experience in at least one programming language web application framework and database technology.
• 2+ years of experience with containerization and deployment tools such as Kubernetes/Docker Helm and Gitlab CI/CD
• 2+ years of experience in a cloud-native or multi-cloud environment (we use AWS GCP and Azure)
• A practitioner of repeatable development processes to deliver high quality software using Git for source control writing tests to catch regressions and using CI for automation.
• A communicative problem solver proactively getting feedback on designs before committing to a solution.
• You want to work in a fast high growth environment and you value a pragmatic approach code simplicity and efficiency
• Requirement - Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate critique and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus/Plus - You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand that not everyone will meet these requirements on day one. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow these skills but don’t meet all of these qualifications 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.

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What We Do

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.

Why Work With Us

At Datadog we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems innovate pragmatically and grow together. We promote from within provide mentorship and opportunities for career development and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.

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