Senior Software Engineer, Community Open Source Engineering

We are looking for a senior software engineer to join our new Community Open Source Engineering team focused on growing the Quickwit OSS community and help steer the quickwit-oss collection of projects. You will play a key role in evolving quickwit & tantivy, ensuring community happiness, optimizing the release process and operations, and more. This is a hybrid role, primarily focused on Software Engineering, with a crucial component dedicated to Technical Writing, including producing blog posts and technical guides. 

Community Open Source Engineering is responsible for fostering engagement and guiding development of Datadog's open source projects outside of the core product and security research areas. The team ensures these projects deliver value to both the open source community and the company by prioritizing community engagement, maintaining software quality and security, and strategically developing new features.  As a member of a small team, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of Community Open Source Engineering and have a significant impact on the team's direction.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What you’ll do:

• Assist with managing the Quickwit community, responsibilities include:
• reviewing external contributions and ensuring codebase quality
• triaging reported GitHub issues
• answering questions on GitHub Discussions
• Help define the project governance. Establish contribution guidelines and continuously improve processes to minimize friction for all stakeholders.
• Collect data to assess project health and usage, identifying areas for improvement.
• Actively evangelize Quickwit to expand its reach and impact.
• Advance the Quickwit roadmap. For example, propose and implement architectural changes to facilitate contributions and reduce maintenance burdens, as well as develop highly requested features.

Who you are:

• You love talking with users and interacting with the open source community 
• You have experience managing an OSS project with a community of (internal and external) users and contributors
• You ship fast, overcome blockers with a practical mindset, and cut through ambiguity
• You have at least 3-5 years of experience with systems-level programming and preferably using Rust (or similar language)
• You are a proficient written communicator, with the ability to clearly articulate thoughts across a team
• You are passionate about developer experience and reducing friction for maintainers and contributors
• You have experience with GitHub Actions and/or release management for complex software projects
• You’ve worked on extract-transform-load tools or stream processing systems

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 in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Competitive global benefits
• Giving programs

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

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