At Datadog, we process millions of monitors every minute, alerting our customers when configured thresholds are crossed. Engineers across the world trust us to alert them when necessary, so our Alerting stack needs to be reliable and scalable.
The Alerting Platform Automation team’s main goal is to improve the processes and tooling that let our Alerting developers operate the platform efficiently. We design and operate automation systems that replace manual actions, from creating environments to deploying and testing safely. We build test environments that give engineers and their AI coding tools fast, reliable feedback, so changes can be validated in minutes rather than days.
Our team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us maintain and scale the Alerting platform. In this position, you’ll work daily with our users, understanding their needs, defining solutions, building the necessary tooling and communicating with all our stakeholders appropriately.
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 You’ll Do:
- Build automation systems that create and manage Alerting environments, with a focus on fast, realistic test environments that shorten the feedback loop for engineers and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Work with SRE, Core Infrastructure and the Alerting engineering teams to understand their needs and provide solutions.
- Lead infrastructure projects and improve our CI/CD and developer tooling, including our deployment process.
- Identify reliability bottlenecks, then design solutions to mitigate or eliminate them, including load testing and testing of infrastructure configuration before it reaches production.
- Improve infrastructure isolation and make our services scale automatically with load.
Who You Are:
- You’re interested in ops and infrastructure challenges, and you’re comfortable writing the code that automates them.
- You can analyze a problem, identify its root cause and propose short-term and long-term solutions.
- You’re a team player, able to work easily with your team members and with many other development teams.
- You communicate appropriately to your audience, from fellow devs to top management.
- You work autonomously across multiple technologies owned by different teams, and you like to discover and learn new ones.
- You think that infrastructure and code are equally important.
- You’re curious about how AI-assisted development changes the way we build and test software, and you enjoy making tooling that works well for both humans and agents.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
- 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.
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About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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Skills Required
- Experience writing code to automate operations and infrastructure processes
- Ability to analyze problems, identify root causes, and develop short-term and long-term solutions
- Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple engineering teams and stakeholders
- Strong communication skills across technical and executive audiences
- Ability to work autonomously across multiple technologies
- Interest in infrastructure, operations, and AI-assisted software development tooling
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Datadog Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is characterized as comprehensive and well-regarded, with robust medical, dental, and vision plans alongside accessible mental-health support for employees and dependents. Plan affordability and company contributions are noted as practical strengths.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is presented as fully paid and gender-neutral, complemented by family-forming benefits such as fertility, adoption, preservation, and surrogacy in eligible locations. Additional elements like childcare assistance and pet-related perks broaden the family support offering.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is readily available through new-hire RSUs and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. This ownership pathway is paired with financial wellness resources that reinforce long-term value.
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What We Do
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.
Why Work With Us
At Datadog, we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems, innovate pragmatically, and grow together. We promote from within, provide mentorship and opportunities for career development, and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them and their team.
