C++ Encoding Engineer

C++ Encoding Engineer
Viseu
Viseu, Viseu District, Portugal

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
- life harmony that best fits them.

What You'll Do:

Develop and maintain
- performance C++ libraries that integrate with reverse proxies to enable observability and diagnostics

Design and implement runtime instrumentation for
- sensitive and
- threaded systems

Contribute to our adoption and integration of Open
Telemetry standards across Datadog's C++ observability libraries

Own the performance, safety, and correctness of
- level code running in production

Collaborate with
- source maintainers and engineering teams to improve tooling and ecosystem support

Investigate deep infrastructure bugs across boundaries (C++, proxies, OS, network stack)

Contribute to shaping our telemetry standards and
- platform instrumentation strategies

Who You Are:

You've written performant,
- grade C++ (C++14 or later) in complex systems

You're confident with multithreading, memory management, and debugging
- level concurrency bugs

You're comfortable owning critical paths in systems that need to be fast, observable, and safe under load

You communicate clearly and thrive in remote, distributed, or
- first teams

Bonus points:

You've worked on or contributed to
- source reverse proxy projects

You've built or maintained
- facing libraries or SDKs

You have experience working on infrastructure components such as proxies, load balancers, or gateway layers

You're familiar with
- level observability tools (perf, e
BPF, systemtap, etc. )

You've debugged performance bottlenecks in HTTP, TLS, or TCP/IP stacks

You have exposure to distributed systems and service meshes at scale

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.

Benefits and Growth:

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for
- house networking

An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions

Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

About Datadog:

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global Saa
S business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful
- first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #Datadog
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Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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Empresa:	Datadog
Localização:	Viseu Viseu, Viseu District, Portugal
Publicado:	4. 12. 2025 Vaga de emprego atual

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