Staff Software Engineer - PostgreSQL

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

What You’ll Do:

• 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

Who You Are:

• You have strong familiarity with Postgres internals

• You have contributed directly to Postgres in the past and/or have substantial contributions to tooling in the relational database ecosystem

• You are excited about the opportunity to work with customers directly, understand their workflows, and build industry-leading experiences for them

• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns

If these sound exciting to you, let’s talk!