Software Engineer - Distributed Caching

Datadog

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Location
New York, New York, United States
Posted
June 07, 2026

Job Description

Software Engineer - Distributed Caching

New York, New York, USA

As an engineer working on the Distributed Caching team, you will build a new high-throughput, low-latency cache that will be critical to much of Datadog’s infrastructure. As the solution is adopted and matures, you’ll continue to help scale it to meet Datadog’s growing needs. The cache, an in-memory distributed key-value store, will be accessed hundreds of millions of times per second by different internal services.

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

What You’ll Do: 

  • Build distributed, high-throughput, real-time data infrastructure
  • Build in Go, and use Redis, gRPC, Envoy and other open-source components
  • ...