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Datadog

Senior Software Engineer - Incident Insights & Readiness

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about 4 hours ago
Paris, FranceSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Own and improve the on-call experience by establishing best practices and building supporting platforms.
  • Define incident response processes and lead the design of software to streamline these processes.
  • Contribute to the post-mortem process and collaborate on writing them to enhance organizational learning.
  • Facilitate incident reviews that emphasize learning and blamelessness across various teams.
  • Provide technical leadership and coaching to team members to accelerate their growth.
  • Train on-call engineers in incident management best practices and processes.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to drive improvements in reliability and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building software that solves real user problems.
  • Experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, and understanding complex failure modes.
  • Ability to independently own ambiguous technical problems from design through delivery.
  • Experience analyzing incidents and driving engineering improvements based on operational learnings.
  • Participation in on-call rotations and experience as an incident commander is a plus.
  • Strong empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without relying on authority.

Benefits

  • 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 networking.
  • Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds for employee resource groups.
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions.
  • Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
  • Competitive global benefits.