Datadog

Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Revenue and Cost Management) - 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

  • Resolve complex escalations involving unexpected usage, missing metering data, usage spikes, billing anomalies, unclear attribution, quotas, plans, exclusions, and overages.
  • Become the subject-matter expert for usage metering, revenue-impacting behavior, and Cloud Cost Management across Datadog products.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Finance to escalate bugs, clarify expected behavior, and improve usage and billing transparency.
  • Build internal guides, tooling, diagnostics, playbooks, and customer-facing content for billing, revenue, usage, and cost-management questions.
  • Run training sessions and create scalable resources that enable global Solutions teams to support usage, billing, and cost conversations.
  • Surface customer feedback and recurring patterns to influence the roadmap for usage visibility, billing transparency, and cost management.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated technical problem-solving and customer engagement skills involving usage, billing, cost impact, and data anomalies.
  • Understanding of cloud cost drivers, usage attribution, spend analysis, and cloud billing models.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, and GCP usage types, tags, accounts or projects, APIs, and billing exports.
  • Ability to analyze data retention, high-cardinality signals, metric volume, log ingestion, and overage prevention in relation to cost impact.
  • Familiarity with APIs, product usage metrics, tagging strategies, account-level configurations, and multi-organization setups.
  • Ability to work across backend telemetry pipelines and customer-facing technical and business contexts.
  • Strong analytical, communication, root-cause analysis, and ambiguity-management skills.
  • Computer Science or Engineering major experience is preferred.
  • Experience with Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, Datadog, integrations ecosystems, or similar observability platforms is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace with office collaboration and work-life harmony.
  • Product training and continuous career development with internal mobility opportunities.
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program.
  • Inclusive company culture and opportunities to join Community Guilds.
  • New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Global mental health benefit through Spring Health and comprehensive benefits that may include healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan.

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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