Senior Software Engineer, Incident Insights & Readiness

Datadog

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Boston, MANew York, NY
Salary: $192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $184k

This role $216k

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This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$216,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $184k for comparable roles.

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About Datadog

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.

Datadog currently has 65 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 64 roles with salary data.

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

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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 leading the post-mortem process to identify systemic risks and improve organizational learning. The role involves providing technical leadership, coaching team members through design reviews, and training others in incident management. You will work with distributed systems, Kubernetes, and complex failure modes while developing features using Go, Python, and TypeScript. This position focuses on solving the challenge of managing high-scale infrastructure by transforming operational data into actionable insights to improve reliability and foster a blameless culture across various engineering teams.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Massachusetts?

Median $193000 from 82 postings across 23 companies.

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Skills

Go Python TypeScript Kubernetes Distributed Systems SRE Incident Management Post-mortem Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineering Technical Design Review

What you'll do

Improve the company's 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 system resilience.
Provide technical leadership and coaching to team members through design reviews and problem-solving.
Train engineers on incident management best practices and internal post-mortem procedures.
Lead cross-functional initiatives to identify systemic risks and drive improvements in 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.
Demonstrated ability to independently own ambiguous technical problems from design through delivery.
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 serving as an incident commander or incident coordinator (preferred).

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