Staff Software Engineer - AAA Identity

The Opportunity

Datadog is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to join our Identity group within the Identity & Access Management organization. In this role, you’ll drive the technical direction that directly addresses our largest customers' pain points. This involves driving a unified approach to manage user identities and their associations within the authentications systems. It also involves ensuring that every user can access their account quickly and consistently, enhancing customers’ trust in Datadog’s security and reliability. The team is also responsible for building and maintaining a dependable data platform that provides accurate and reliable data to Datadog product teams.

You’ll collaborate closely with product, design and engineering teams across Datadog to define, prototype and scale these initiatives.  

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop a flexible platform that lets customers define policies, detect misconfigurations, and take action.  
• Drive high-priority, high-visibility projects that enhance the overall Datadog experience for our largest customers.  
• Contribute strategically to short- and long-term roadmap development.
• Lead high-impact initiatives including:
• User Registration and Login experience
• Identity Management - Users, Orgs, etc.
• Enterprise Identity Integrations
• Web Sessions and Session Management

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Experienced at aligning multiple engineering teams around shared technical strategies
• Strong background architecting large-scale backend systems
• Product-minded with deep empathy for customer experience and operational excellence.
• Effective communicator, comfortable presenting your ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Passionate about growing and mentoring engineers

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
• Competitive global benefits
• Continuous professional development

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.