Datadog

Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Logs) - US-East

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Boston, MA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
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Base Salary

$85k - $113k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop deep technical expertise in Datadog products and continuously learn as the platform evolves.
  • Investigate complex escalations and lead high-stakes technical calls for critical customer challenges.
  • Troubleshoot log ingestion, parsing, routing, indexing, retention, facets, storage, rehydration, filters, and quotas.
  • Run office hours and learning sessions and mentor the Global Support Engineering team.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product to identify gaps, drive improvements, and advocate for customers.
  • Build internal diagnostic tools, reusable troubleshooting flows, and technical guides for TSEs and customers.

Requirements

  • Experience troubleshooting parsing failures, dropped logs, incorrect facets, pipeline routing problems, and noisy ingestion.
  • Comfort working with GROK, JSON, custom log parsers, filters, remappers, and processors.
  • Familiarity with log-based monitors, Live Tail, cold storage, rehydration, exclusion filters, and quotas.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, customer engagement, collaboration, mentoring, and continuous-learning skills.
  • Computer Science or Engineering major is a bonus qualification.
  • Experience using Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, or similar software is a bonus qualification.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace arrangement.
  • Competitive US benefits, including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
  • New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous career development, product training, and career pathing opportunities.
  • Best-in-breed onboarding and an internal mentor and buddy program.
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.

Tech Stack

Datadog

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Datadog

About Datadog

1,001-5,000 employees

Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

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