Senior Software Engineer - REDAPL Graph Engine

• Help take REDAPL, Datadog's Referential Data Platform, to the next level as a Senior Software Engineer. • Work on the main platform for tracking customers' infrastructure resources and relationships, powering products such as Cloud Security Posture Management, Resource Catalog, Cloud Cost Management, and Service Catalog. • Handle a platform that ingests more than 4.5 million updates per second. • Drive, lead, and collaborate on projects both inside and outside the platform, contributing to key technical decisions across data ingestion, processing, and query pipelines. • Work remotely from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom.

• Hold a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field, or have equivalent experience. • Have worked extensively with multiple types of data stores. • Have contributed to initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for several years. • Have led impactful technical initiatives where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience are first-order concerns. • Have significant back-end engineering experience, including building and operating distributed systems at high scale.

• Have experience with graph databases such as Neo4j, Memgraph, JanusGraph, ArangoDB, Amazon Neptune, or PuppyGraph. • Have production-grade experience with Apache Iceberg. • Have a solid grasp of query planning, ideally through contributions to production-grade query engines or related projects such as Trino, Calcite, Substrait, or DataFusion. • Demonstrate this through open-source contributions or PMC membership on relevant projects.

• Build a query engine that supports efficient relationship traversals for the most demanding workloads. • Contribute to the design of and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects that increase the platform's value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams. • Lead and guide other engineers through architectural platform decisions. • Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, and design solutions to address them. • Provide input on prioritising engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps. • Collaborate with internal product teams to understand their requirements and plan for their product growth as they integrate with and depend on REDAPL.

• Build tools for software engineers and use those same tools to accelerate your own development. • Have significant influence on product direction and impact on the business. • Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn. • Receive competitive global benefits, which vary based on country and nature of employment. • Access continuous professional development.

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