✦ Luna Orbit — Software Engineering

Staff Software Engineer

at Datadog

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA Unknown Posted March 11, 2026
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Position Details

Type Not Specified
Experience senior
Exp. Years 10+ years
Education BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
Category Software Engineering

About this role

Senior software engineer role focusing on building and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on performance and AI integration.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and build distributed systems
  • Optimize system performance
  • Lead technical initiatives
  • Integrate AI tools
  • Mentor engineering teams

Technical Overview

Environment involves distributed systems, performance tuning, AI coding tools, and system architecture design, with a focus on scalability and efficiency.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior software engineer with over 10 years of experience in building large-scale distributed systems, proficient in Go, Rust, C++, and Java, with strong leadership and problem-solving skills. They are motivated to innovate with AI and contribute to scalable, high-performance systems.

Must-Have Skills

10+ years of relevant engineering experience4+ years of technical leadershipExperience designing and delivering industry-leading systemsAbility to use AI coding toolsExperience with large-scale distributed systems

Nice-to-Have Skills

Motivation to push AI boundariesBuilding AI-enabled products

Tools & Platforms

AI coding toolsDistributed systemsSystem design

Required Skills

distributed systemsperformance optimizationAI coding toolssystem designarchitectural designlarge-scale systemsleadershiptechnical leadershipproblem-solvingcollaboration

Hard Skills

GoGolangRustC++JavaLarge-scale distributed systemsPerformance optimizationAI coding toolsSystem designArchitectural design

Soft Skills

LeadershipTechnical communicationProblem-solvingCollaborationInnovationMentoring

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, Monitoring
Job Function Develop and lead scalable distributed systems with AI integration

Keywords for Your Resume

Software Engineeringdistributed systemsperformance optimizationAI coding toolssystem designarchitectural designlarge-scale systemsleadershiptechnical leadershipproblem-solvingcollaborationmentoringinnovationbuilding AI-enabled products

Deal Breakers

Less than 10 years of engineering experience, No experience with distributed systems, Lack of leadership experience, Inability to work with AI coding tools

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