Senior Datadog Developer - Monitoring Observability Services

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Datadog Developer with strong expertise in observability, monitoring, and performance optimization. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining monitoring solutions, dashboards, and alerts using Datadog, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and Responsibilities :

• Design, configure, and implement Datadog monitoring solutions for applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, SLOs/SLAs, and reporting to provide visibility into system performance and reliability.
• Integrate Datadog with AWS / Azure / GCP, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and microservices.
• Optimize logging, tracing, and metrics collection for end-to-end observability.
• Work closely with DevOps, SRE, and development teams to troubleshoot performance issues.
• Automate monitoring configurations using Terraform, Ansible, or other IaC tools.
• Stay updated with Datadog best practices, new features, and observability Skills & Qualifications :
• 5+ years of experience in Datadog monitoring, observability, and performance engineering.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices monitoring.
• Experience in APM (Application Performance Monitoring) and distributed tracing.
• Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring, logging, and custom metrics.
• Scripting/automation experience in Python, Shell, or similar.
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Strong problem-solving and debugging to Have :
• Experience with other monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic.
• Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE practices.
• Datadog certification(s) will be a plus.