Datadog's APM team is building a world-class tracing product that helps developers see inside complex distributed systems. We're building rock solid libraries to trace requests as they flow across servers, databases, caches and micro-services in all the major languages. We're investing heavily in systems to process a massive firehose of data - fast data pipelines, scalable storage systems and a slick UI to tie it all together. The APM Common Components team develops reusable components in Rust that replace duplicate implementations across several of the languages APM and other product teams support. By implementing core functionality once and sharing it, we accelerate feature delivery, increase developer efficiency, and minimize performance impact on our customer applications.
Requirements
- You have professional experience writing and deploying Rust code in production.
- You have significant experience building and maintaining native libraries (C/C++/Rust) that interoperate with other languages.
- You’re attentive to details and can build software with very low defect rates. You appreciate simplicity as a tool to accomplish this.
- Hands on experience in software design and leading refactoring initiatives to improve the architecture of complex software libraries.
- You’re interested in an environment that values shipping early and iterating, and keeping processes to the minimum needed to ensure safety. You enjoy owning projects and can keep moving forward despite the occasional ambiguity or blocker.
Responsibilities
- Work with our engineering teams and open-source maintainers to build shared capabilities that will be used in Datadog’s APM SDKs.
- Help shape the cross-language interoperability stack: from high-level FFI API design to data exchange and memory management patterns, ensuring consistent, high-performance integration of shared Rust components across multiple languages supported by Datadog’s APM product.
- Use profilers, debuggers, and other tools to optimize performance critical code paths to minimize overhead in production APM environments.
- Contribute to building a vibrant Rust community within Datadog.
Other
- 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.
- Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
