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Senior Data Engineer

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Senior Data Engineer in USA

  • Datadog
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Boston, MA

Responsibilities

  • Design and build high-throughput data pipelines for billing and cost attribution.
  • Drive latency reduction, Spark optimization, sharding, and cross-datacenter reliability improvements.
  • Own root-cause investigations into billing accuracy issues with Finance and Product teams.
  • Contribute to new billing features and platform improvements.
  • Operate production data systems, participate in an on-call rotation, and maintain high reliability standards.
  • Contribute to engineering standards and help develop the team’s technical culture.

Requirements

  • Significant experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale using Spark and Airflow.
  • Ability to own complex cross-functional investigations and drive them to resolution.
  • Ability to balance feature delivery with platform health and technical debt.
  • Strong analytical judgment and rigor around data-system correctness.
  • Ability to work in ambiguous environments and align stakeholder teams.
  • Commitment to code quality, maintainability, and operational excellence.
  • Experience with Apache Iceberg or lakehouse architectures is preferred.
  • Experience with billing, metering, or financial data systems is preferred.
  • Experience with low-latency data serving or real-time aggregation pipelines is preferred.
  • Candidates must be eligible for any required US government export-control authorizations.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Competitive salary and equity package, with variable compensation potentially included.
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits.
  • 401(k) plan and company match.
  • Paid time off.
  • Fitness reimbursements.
  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan.

Salary: $192k - $240k/yr

Datadog

Datadog is a cloud monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations gain real-time visibility into the performance, reliability, and security of their technology environments. Through its SaaS-based analytics platform, Datadog enables businesses to monitor cloud-scale applications, ...

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