About the position
The Database Monitoring team at Datadog is building an industry-revolutionizing product to automatically pinpoint our customers’ database problems and proactively improve query performance. Join a successful product team transforming the way our industry operates data stores. Some examples of projects you will execute on include: Author Postgres extensions for increased performance visibility (e.g. pg_tracing), Identify and contribute core changes to Postgres relating to the query protocol, pg_stat* views, and more, Develop heuristics and automated recommendations for customers’ workloads such as optimal autovacuum settings and GUC parameter tuning, Build observability telemetry into client-side language drivers (e.g. JDBC) and connection pools, Lead development of greenfield tooling for the Postgres ecosystem from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects like the ones described above
- Provide technical leadership to the Database Monitoring team and peer teams
- Be a driving force in growing the product’s adoption by 10X
- Define enduring architectures to support a rapidly growing team and user base
Requirements
- Strong familiarity with Postgres internals
- Contributed directly to Postgres in the past and/or have substantial contributions to tooling in the relational database ecosystem
- Excited about the opportunity to work with customers directly, understand their workflows, and build industry-leading experiences for them
- Led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Variable compensation
- Healthcare benefits
- Dental benefits
- Parental planning benefits
- Mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
