Datadog Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the end-to-end onboarding process for applications, services, and infrastructure into Datadog.
• Configure and maintain dashboards, monitors, alerts, logs, APM, and tracing solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and application teams to establish monitoring standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot Datadog Agent deployments and integrations across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Analyze metrics, logs, traces, and performance data to identify issues and improve system reliability.
• Manage Datadog user access, permissions, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) configurations.
• Ensure observability solutions align with security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Develop documentation, onboarding procedures, and governance processes for Datadog usage.
• Support AWS integrations and monitoring strategies across cloud infrastructure.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to observability, monitoring, and incident response.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience administering and managing Datadog environments.
• Strong experience configuring dashboards, monitors, alerting, logging, and APM solutions within Datadog.
• Background in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure monitoring, observability, and operational best practices.
• Experience implementing and managing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and SaaS platform security.
• Ability to troubleshoot Datadog Agent deployments, integrations, and data collection issues.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience interpreting metrics, logs, and trace data.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to partner with technical stakeholders across multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation practices.
• Datadog certifications or equivalent observability platform experience.
• Experience establishing monitoring governance and operational standards in enterprise environments.