Senior Software Engineer, Community Open Source Engineering

Benefits

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Salary

$215K-$215K From the posting source

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

84% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source

Seniority

Senior From the posting source

Work mode

Hybrid From the posting source

In-office days

2 days From the posting source

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About this role

Senior Software Engineer, Community Open Source Engineering New York, New York, USA 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

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