Datadog
Staff Engineer, Compute
UK, Europe
UTC+0 to UTC+1 Full time
Lead or Staff
- Where you can live
- Lisbon, Portugal ยท Dublin, Ireland; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC+0 to UTC+1
- Salary
- Not published
- Posted
- August 18, 2026
Summary from the posting
- Lead the technical direction of capacity management and workload placement for Datadog's Kubernetes platform spanning 100,000+ virtual machines across multiple cloud providers.
- Design and build systems that optimize how engineering workloads are scheduled and deployed across regions while balancing capacity constraints, reliability, and performance.
- Partner across infrastructure teams to evolve multi-region and multi-cloud capacity orchestration as Datadog continues to scale.
- Develop production software in Go to improve Kubernetes platform capabilities, automation, and operational efficiency.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Datadog's own career page.