Staff Software Engineer – PostgreSQL

The Database Monitoring team at Datadog is building an industry-revolutionizing product to automatically pinpoint our customers’ database problems and proactively improve query performance. Join a successful product team transforming the way our industry operates data stores. Some examples of projects you will execute on include:

• Author Postgres extensions for increased performance visibility (e.g. pg_tracing)
• Identify and contribute core changes to Postgres relating to the query protocol, pg_stat* views, and more
• Develop heuristics and automated recommendations for customers’ workloads such as optimal autovacuum settings and GUC parameter tuning
• Build observability telemetry into client-side language drivers (e.g. JDBC) and connection pools
• Lead development of greenfield tooling for the Postgres ecosystem from the ground up

What You’ll Do:

• Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects like the ones described above
• Provide technical leadership to the Database Monitoring team and peer teams
• Be a driving force in growing the product’s adoption by 10X
• Define enduring architectures to support a rapidly growing team and user base

Who You Are:

• You have strong familiarity with Postgres internals
• You have contributed directly to Postgres in the past and/or have substantial contributions to tooling in the relational database ecosystem
• You are excited about the opportunity to work with customers directly, understand their workflows, and build industry-leading experiences for them
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns

If these sound exciting to you, let’s talk!

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$234,000—$300,000 USD