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Urgent! Staff Software Engineer - API Platform Job Opening In Madrid – Now Hiring Datadog

Staff Software Engineer API Platform



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Overview Datadog Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain – Staff Software Engineer, API Platform.
Datadog is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the API Platform group.

This team owns the infrastructure and tooling behind our public API surface, which spans more than 7,000 endpoints and supports a wide range of customers and integrations.

As a Staff Engineer, you will contribute to a broad set of projects across multiple teams that support API routing, reliability, web frameworks, and large-scale automation.

This is a high-impact, highly visible role where you will work with leaders and engineers across Datadog to drive major initiatives, influence system design, and ensure the performance and resilience of critical systems.
You will collaborate with teams that build and evolve internal frameworks, traffic shaping and routing logic, reliability tooling, and developer enablement for API infrastructure.
Datadog values a collaborative, office-first culture with a hybrid work arrangement to support work-life harmony.
What You’ll Do Lead technical direction across multiple teams spanning API routing, rate limiting, frameworks, reliability tooling, and infrastructure automation.
Design and evolve edge-layer systems that handle traffic before it reaches backend services, including routing, rate limiting, audit logging, WAF, and other protective layers with strong reliability requirements.
Contribute to the evolution of internal frameworks in Go and Python used by thousands of engineers, working closely with engineers across product teams.
Lead efforts to make it easier and safer to provision services in new data centers by building automation tools and coordinating with multiple teams.
Support reliability for over 7,000 public APIs, including ownership of load testing infrastructure and Terraform provider.
Help define and implement best practices for testing, observability, and resilience across the API stack.
Mentor engineers and shape the long-term architecture and direction of the API Platform group.
Collaborate on cross-company initiatives such as MCP servers, A2A protocol, and long-term reliability improvements.
Who You Are You have 10 or more years of engineering experience with a strong background in backend systems and platform infrastructure.
You bring expertise in site reliability engineering, backend architecture, or frameworks development.
You have strong software development experience and are comfortable working in a Go-heavy codebase.
You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving work across multiple teams with differing priorities.
You enjoy mentoring, guiding teams through complex infrastructure problems, and leading high-impact projects end to end.
Datadog values people from all walks of life.

We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one.

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 development.
Have 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
About Datadog Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering growth and profitability.

We enable digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring for customers’ technology stacks.

Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across industries.

We champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence.
Equal Opportunity Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users.

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