Job title: Staff Software Engineer – Workflow Engine
Company: Datadog
Job description: The OpportunityWe’re looking for an experienced engineer to join Datadog’s Workflow Engine Team, the group behind Atlas – our platform for building reliable, long-running workflows as code. Atlas is built on Temporal, the leading open-source workflow orchestration technology, and plays a central role in how Datadog builds complex distributed systems at scale. We work closely with the Temporal community and have contributed upstream improvements in areas like reliability, performance, and developer tooling, strengthening both Atlas and the broader ecosystem.As a Staff Engineer, you’ll help shape the future of Atlas: evolving its architecture, improving performance and resilience, and making it the go-to workflow platform across Datadog. You’ll collaborate with other senior engineers and product teams to solve hard distributed systems challenges while mentoring teammates and contributing to our engineering culture. This is a high-impact role with direct influence on how Datadog builds and operates critical workflows powering our products and services.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:
- Design and implement high-scale, reliable, and durable workflow execution infrastructure on top of Temporal
- Lead the evolution of Atlas to meet Datadog’s growing scale and reliability needs, running many million of actions per minute
- Support Datadog’s AI initiatives by evolving Atlas into the orchestration backbone for AI agents and enabling an AI-first development mindset internally
- Partner with platform and product teams to make Atlas the standard for orchestrating workflows company-wide
- Drive technical strategy for resilience, durability, and performance optimization
- Mentor engineers and foster best practices in distributed systems development
Who You Are:
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems in production
- Deep expertise in systems programming, workflow orchestration, or related domains (job scheduling, stream processing, etc.)
- Experience designing for durability and correctness in stateful systems
- Skilled at making architectural decisions and leading complex projects
- Fluent in at least one systems-level language (e.g., Go, Java, C++, Rust)
- Collaborative, with a track record of mentoring and growing other engineers
- Bonus: Prior experience with Temporal or another workflow orchestration system
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.
Expected salary:
Location: New York City, NY
Job date: Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:40:01 GMT
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