Maya Chen
OnsiteCAND-8817Backend Engineer @ Datadog · San Francisco, CA · Applying for Senior Backend Engineer (REQ-2041)
Details
- Salary expectation
- $180,000–$195,000 base
- Notice period
- 4 weeks
- Source
- Referral — Noor Al-Sayed (Engineering)
- Work authorization
- US citizen, no sponsorship needed
- Location preference
- Remote, quarterly onsites OK
- Skills
- GoPostgresKafkaKubernetes
Interview scorecards
2 of 4 submitted- DOStrong hire
Technical screen — Dana Okafor
Jun 30 · 45 min
Excellent depth on consistency trade-offs in the queue-migration question. Walked through a real incident at Datadog and her mitigation was exactly what we'd want. Communication is crisp under pressure.
- FTHire
Coding interview — Felix Tan
Jul 8 · 60 min
Clean, idiomatic Go; finished both parts with time to discuss extensions. Minor gap on generics edge cases, not blocking for this level. Tests-first habit was a plus.
Systems design and values interviews are scheduled for today's onsite loop — scorecards due within 24h.
Experience
Backend Engineer — Datadog
2022 – present
Owns ingestion pipeline for logs product; led the Kafka → in-house queue migration handling 40M events/sec.
Software Engineer — Segment
2019 – 2022
Built destination-delivery retry system; on-call lead for the connections platform.
BS Computer Science — UC San Diego
2015 – 2019
Up next
Onsite loop — systems design
Today · 14:00–15:30 PT · Zoom
Panel: Dana Okafor, Felix Tan
Activity
Advanced to Onsite by Priya Raman
Today · 09:12
Felix Tan submitted coding scorecard — Hire
Jul 8 · 16:40
Priya Raman noted: comp expectations confirmed within band
Jul 1 · 11:05
Applied via referral from Noor Al-Sayed
Jun 24 · 08:31
Documents
maya-chen-resume.pdf
214 KB · Jun 24
queue-migration-writeup.pdf
1.2 MB · Jun 30
Hiring team
- DO
Dana Okafor
Hiring manager
- PR
Priya Raman
Recruiter
- FT
Felix Tan
Interview panel