Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (ODP Governance)
Datadog — Paris, France
Posted 2026-10-21
Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (ODP Governance) ODP Governance is a cross platform team working in the biggest Datadog products (Metrics, Logs, APM) with the mission of giving customers governance tools to control costs and data hygiene of their telemetry. Our team builds cost controls and governance tools that help Datadog’s enterprise customers manage data ingestion, reduce unwanted data, and prioritize the telemetry that delivers the most value. Our scope spans multiple Datadog products, including Metrics, Events, Logs, and APM. As a backend engineering team, we partner with these product teams to address recurring customer challenges that create operational friction, increase costs, and contribute to churn. We also identify opportunities to extend successful capabilities across products—for example, adapting a control developed for Logs to support APM. 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 performant high sca