Senior Software Engineer, Incident Insights & Readiness

Datadog

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Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Incident Insights & Readiness

As a Senior Software Engineer - Incident Insights & Readiness, you will join the SRE team to build software, tooling, and operational frameworks that help engineers prepare for, respond to, and learn from incidents. You will own the on-call experience by establishing best practices, designing systems to streamline incident response, and contributing to the post-mortem process to reduce friction and enhance organizational learning. The role involves providing technical leadership, coaching team members through design reviews, and training others in incident management. You will work with Go, Python, and TypeScript while managing distributed systems and Kubernetes environments. Your work focuses on solving complex failure modes by analyzing incidents to identify systemic risks and driving improvements to reliability. This role requires expertise in incident coordination and the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives to improve operational excellence across the organization.

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What you'll do

  • Improve the company-wide on-call experience by establishing best practices and building supporting platforms.
  • Design and implement software to streamline incident response processes across the organization.
  • Manage the post-mortem process by identifying opportunities to reduce friction and enhance learning value.
  • Facilitate blameless incident reviews to help teams share learnings and improve organizational resilience.
  • Provide technical leadership and coaching to team members through design reviews and problem-solving.
  • Train engineers on incident management best practices and post-mortem procedures.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to identify systemic risks and drive improvements to operational excellence.

What we're looking for

  • At least 5 years of experience building software that solves real user problems.
  • Experience designing new features and participating in code and technical design reviews.
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
  • Experience building or operating distributed systems with familiarity with Kubernetes and complex failure modes.
  • Experience analyzing incidents, identifying systemic risks, and driving engineering improvements based on operational learnings.
  • Experience participating in on-call rotations and improving incident response processes.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional initiatives to influence technical direction.
  • Strong communication skills in English to collaborate across various teams.

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