Senior Software Engineer - REDAPL Graph Engine

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

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.

What it asks for · 5

• 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 operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale

Also a plus

• You have experience working with Graph Databases such as Neo4j, Memgraph, JanusGraph, ArangoDB, Amazon Neptune or PuppyGraph.
• You have production-grade experience with Apache Iceberg
• You have a solid grasp of query planning or better yet - contributed to a production-grade query engines or related projects (e.g. Trino, Calcite, Substrait, DataFusion, etc) ideally demonstrated through open-source contributions or PMC membership on projects.

What the job covers

• 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

Degree language

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• redapl5×
• experience4×
• product4×
• projects4×
• query4×
• data3×
• engineer3×
• initiatives3×
• related3×
• relationships3×
• understand3×
• value3×
• build2×
• catalog2×
• cloud2×

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