Senior Software Engineer - Incident Insights & Readiness

About the role

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What they’re looking for

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• At least 5 years of experience building software that solves real user problems. Experience designing new features and collaborating on code and technical design reviews. We primarily develop in Go and Python, with a bit of TypeScript.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems, with familiarity with Kubernetes and an understanding of complex failure modes.
• Demonstrated ability to independently own ambiguous technical problems from design through delivery while balancing long-term engineering quality with pragmatic execution.
• Experience analyzing incidents, identifying systemic risks, and driving engineering improvements informed by operational learnings.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and improving incident response processes. Experience serving as an incident commander or incident coordinator is a plus.
• Empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English to cultivate strong relationships across various teams in the organization
• Experience mentoring engineers, driving cross-functional initiatives, and influencing technical direction without relying on organizational authority.
• We welcome candidates from a variety of backgrounds, including software engineering, site reliability engineering, production engineering, infrastructure, and other roles focused on building reliable systems or improving incident response.

Benefits & working conditions

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits
• Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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