Senior Software Engineer
Pubblicato il 16-10-2026 - Datadog in Italia
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us take REDAPL, our Referential Data Platform, to the next level. REDAPL is Datadog’s main platform for tracking our customers’ infrastructure resources and relationships. The platform enables products where customers can understand, keep track of, and gain insights into their infrastructure related to performance, cost, security, and more.
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Many Datadog products use REDAPL today such as Cloud Security Posture Management, Resource Catalog, Cloud Cost Management, and Service Catalog and others - REDAPL ingests more than 4.5 million updates per second.
What You’ll Do:
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- Build a query engine that supports efficient relationship traversals for our most demanding workloads.
- Contribute to design and drive high‑priority, high‑visibility projects to 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 prioritizing engineering‑led initiatives in short‑ and long‑term planning and roadmaps.
- Collaborate with internal product teams to understand their requirements and how we plan for their product growth as they integrate and depend on REDAPL.
Who You Are:
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- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience.
- You have worked extensively with multiple types of data stores.
- You have contributed to initiatives in a platform or infrastructure‑focused environment for several years.
- You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first‑order concerns.
- You have significant back‑end engineering experience and have built, and