Datadog

Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Alerting) - EMEA

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7 hours ago
Paris, France or Dublin, IrelandMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Become the global expert on alerting and monitoring within the Technical Solutions team.
  • Investigate alert-related escalations across metric behavior, configuration edge cases, and backend evaluation logic.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to flag inconsistent monitor behavior and propose enhancements.
  • Develop scalable diagnostics, reusable response strategies, and field-ready resources.
  • Lead enablement through asynchronous training and live office hours for global Solutions teams.

Requirements

  • Experience debugging alert misfires, delayed or missing notifications, noisy monitors, and complex alerting logic.
  • Ability to interpret how data aggregation, gaps, and late data points affect alert evaluation and incident response.
  • Confidence navigating APIs, tagging strategies, downtime configurations, and scalable alerting practices.
  • Passion for helping customers reduce alert fatigue and improve visibility into meaningful signals.
  • Familiarity with Datadog alerting systems, including metric, composite, anomaly, logs, and SLO monitors, is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace designed to support collaboration and work-life harmony.

Tech Stack

Datadog

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Datadog

About Datadog

10,000+ employees

Datadog builds a SaaS observability and security platform that monitors infrastructure, applications, logs, and services for engineering and DevOps teams. Its products include infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, real user monitoring, and cloud security, sold via subscriptions and used across cloud-native and hybrid environments. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York City, Datadog is a public company trading on NASDAQ under the ticker DDOG.

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