# Staff Software Engineer - Watchdog Anomaly Detection at Datadog

- Company: Datadog
- What the company does: See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free. Backed by Index, CRV and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://datadoghq.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, New York, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Apply by: 2026-12-04
- Apply: https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8304107/?gh_jid=8304107&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/datadog-staff-software-engineer-watchdog-anomaly-detection/

## About the role

Datadog is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our anomaly detection platform. Our team builds and operates high-scale distributed systems that process streaming and batch data, working alongside machine learning systems to automatically identify potential issues in our customers' environments. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You have extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, particularly high-throughput or data-intensive backend platforms
- You have a strong understanding of streaming and batch processing architectures, including the challenges of processing large volumes of data with low latency
- You have experience leading complex architectural initiatives, making technical tradeoffs, and improving the reliability and maintainability of production systems
- You can drive technical strategy beyond your immediate team, collaborating with engineering leaders and product partners to translate customer needs into scalable platform solutions
- You are comfortable working across technologies and learning new systems, experience with technologies such as Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, Go, or Python is a plus
- You bring a product-oriented mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer outcomes, familiarity with machine learning systems or deploying models in production is a plus, but not required

Tags: Dev Eng

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/datadog-staff-software-engineer-watchdog-anomaly-detection/