Library Software Engineer - PHP
Tel Aviv, Israel; Paris, France; Madrid, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal
What You’ll Do:
You will build open-source code that instruments thousands of PHP applications around the world.
You’ll help drive our open source PHP projects and engage with the community to find and address the most important challenges.
You’ll contribute to our distributed tracing libraries – adding cutting-edge functionality and debugging tricky problems.
You’ll be part of the PHP guild at Datadog, interacting with engineers building profiling and security products.
Who You Are:
You have significant experience maintaining PHP extensions.
You have good knowledge of PHP and the PHP Ecosystem and have experience in C. It is a bonus if you have experience with Rust or with web applications such as Wordpress, Drupal or with frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony.
You have a solid high-level understanding of the components of the Zend Engine and how they work together.
You’re attentive to details and can build software with very low defect rates. You appreciate simplicity as a tool to accomplish this.
You’ve used distributed tracing or done other forms of observability and know how to write efficient software.
You’re interested in an environment that values shipping early and iterating, and keeping processes to the minimum needed to ensure safety. You enjoy owning projects and can keep moving forward despite the occasional ambiguity or blocker
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:
Skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates to work with and learn from.
Interesting challenges of all sorts. You’ll gain experience with runtime internals, low level OS details, and how to safely ship software that runs within customer processes at scale.
Opportunities to contribute to open source software.
You’ll have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business, especially since we continue to grow quickly.
Competitive global benefits.
Continuous professional development
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.


