Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform (NORAM)

Kafka is mission critical at Datadog—used for sending data in near real-time between a vast majority of our services. The Streaming Platform team is responsible for operating the Kafka fleet and building abstractions on top of it so that companies and engineers across the world continue to trust Datadog functionality and metrics. The Streaming Platform team’s goals are reliability, cost efficiency, and usability for our customers. We support several dozen internal customers, with petabytes of storage and hundreds of millions of messages and MiB per second flowing through our infrastructure. At this scale, first-class reliability is an exciting challenge, meaningful cost optimizations can result from clever improvements, and excellent customer satisfaction requires an emphasis on safe automation. Our team is looking for a Senior Software engineer to help us scale and cont