Datadog Engineer

Job Title

Define and implement high-level engineering strategies and system architectures that align with organizational goals. Address significant and unique issues that impact design success or influence future concepts, products, or technologies. Develop scalable observability strategies using Datadog for applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and security monitoring. Architect dashboards, monitors, and alerting frameworks tailored to business and operational requirements.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of large-scale, complex engineering projects while ensuring quality and scalability. Exercise wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.

Identify inefficiencies in workflows and implement tools, methodologies, or processes to enhance productivity and reliability. Use professional concepts to develop resolutions for critical issues and broad design matters. Establish best practices for metric collection, log ingestion, tracing, and anomaly detection. Optimize cost management and usage efficiency of Datadog licenses and features. Ensure alerting policies reduce noise while providing actionable insights.

Address critical technical challenges by providing innovative solutions and guiding teams through implementation. Work on issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Serve as escalation point for Datadog-related performance or monitoring issues. Perform root-cause analysis using Datadog dashboards, traces, and logs to identify and resolve system issues quickly.