Datadog

Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Web Platform) - US-West

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Denver, CO, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$85k - $113k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Investigate complex escalations, lead high-stakes technical calls, and resolve critical customer challenges.
  • Own Web Platform investigations involving authentication, authorization, identity, enterprise administration, dashboards, notebooks, sheets, and DDSQL.
  • Handle login failures, broken dashboards, permission mismatches, audit discrepancies, and visualization bugs.
  • Coordinate investigations across multiple product areas and maintain accountability for outcomes.
  • Develop internal tooling, debugging guides, and reusable workflows for access and user-interface issues.
  • Run office hours, deliver learning sessions, and mentor the Global Support Engineering team.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product to identify gaps, drive improvements, and advocate for customers.
  • Continuously develop deep technical expertise as the product evolves.

Requirements

  • Deep familiarity with SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, and SCIM, including debugging access issues across identity providers and account configurations.
  • Experience investigating enterprise-scale authorization involving roles, permissions, data restrictions, and credential lifecycles.
  • Ability to analyze audit and compliance behavior and reconstruct who did what, when, and why.
  • Familiarity with enterprise administration, including user and organization management and governance controls.
  • Strong understanding of data visualization and dashboard usability.
  • Ability to troubleshoot graphs end to end, from configuration and query resolution through final rendering.
  • Computer Science or Engineering majors are a bonus.
  • Experience with Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, or similar software is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with Datadog, its integrations ecosystem, or similar observability platforms is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace arrangement.
  • Generous and competitive benefits, including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, and fitness reimbursements.
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous career development, product training, and career pathing opportunities.
  • Best-in-class 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.