Datadog Senior Engineer

We are growing our enterprise observability practice and are seeking an experienced Datadog Engineer to help lead and scale our monitoring, analytics, and reliability capabilities.

What You'll Do

* Design, architect, and scale enterprise observability solutions using Datadog across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and security platforms

* Architect dashboards, monitors, and alerting frameworks aligned to business, operational, and reliability requirements

* Define and implement best practices for metrics, logs, traces, and anomaly detection

* Lead deployment and configuration of Datadog agents, APIs, integrations, and automation across complex, multi-cloud environments

* Integrate Datadog with CI/CD pipelines, logging platforms, and collaboration tools (e.g., GitLab, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack)

* Identify observability gaps and drive improvements in signal quality, reliability, and incident response

* Optimize Datadog usage and licensing costs while maintaining strong coverage and actionable insights

* Partner closely with DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Application, and Security teams to embed observability into daily operations

* Produce clear documentation and contribute to knowledge sharing across teams

* Recent enterprise-level ownership is required

* Hands-on experience designing and owning Datadog observability solutions (not execution-only roles)

* Proven experience as a technical decision-maker in a modern software development environment.

Strong Experience With:

* Datadog Monitoring, APM, Distributed Tracing, and alerting

* Cloud platforms and DevOps / SRE practices

* CI/CD integrations and automation

* Scripting and configuration skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML, etc.)

* Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business stakeholders

* Demonstrated ability to articulate measurable impact and outcomes (e.g., MTTR reduction, reliability improvements, cost optimization)