Datadog

Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Database Monitoring) - EMEA

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4 hours ago
Paris, France or Dublin, IrelandMid Level
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Responsibilities

  • Investigate complex technical escalations and lead high-stakes calls for critical customer challenges.
  • Develop expertise in Database Monitoring and serve as the technical stakeholder for Postgres, MySQL, and SQL Server Agent integrations.
  • Debug advanced Datadog Agent configuration and performance issues and analyze primarily Python-based Agent and integration code.
  • Mentor Global Support Engineering through office hours, learning sessions, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product to identify gaps, propose code, telemetry, and documentation improvements, and advocate for customers.
  • Create internal runbooks, public-facing solutions, reusable debugging frameworks, and product-release readiness plans.

Requirements

  • Experience debugging Datadog Agent integrations and advanced configuration or performance issues.
  • Ability to interpret primarily Python codebases, trace logic paths, and assess behavior in edge-case customer environments.
  • Ability to recreate cloud-hosted and self-hosted database environments across RDS, Azure, CloudSQL, Linux, Windows, K8s, and Docker.
  • Strong root-cause analysis, systems thinking, experimentation, problem-solving, collaboration, mentoring, and customer-engagement skills.
  • Computer Science or Engineering major is a bonus qualification.
  • Experience with Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, or similar software is a bonus qualification.
  • Familiarity with Datadog, its integrations ecosystem, or similar observability platforms is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace model.
  • Generous and competitive benefits that may vary by country and employment type.
  • New-hire stock equity in the form of RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous career development, pathing opportunities, and product training.
  • Best-in-breed onboarding and an internal cross-departmental mentor and buddy program.
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.

Tech Stack

AzureDatadogDockerKubernetesLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLPythonWindows

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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