Observability Platform Engineer (Datadog)

Location: New York, NY; hybrid schedule with 2–3 days in the office

Salary: $120,000–$150,000 per year, plus discretionary bonus and benefits

What you will do

• Own, architect, and operate scalable Datadog observability solutions across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Lead the migration from OpenView to Datadog while maintaining monitoring coverage and improving monitoring fidelity.
• Automate monitors, dashboards, alerts, and telemetry configuration using Datadog APIs, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Implement APM, distributed tracing, log management, infrastructure monitoring, Network Performance Monitoring, RUM, and Synthetic Monitoring.
• Define SLOs and error budgets, reduce alert noise, and improve incident response and MTTR through correlation, enrichment, and monitor tuning.
• Integrate Datadog with ServiceNow, create runbooks and dashboards, and guide engineering teams on instrumentation and observability standards.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in observability, APM, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2–3 years of production Datadog experience.
• Deep knowledge of Datadog APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Management, Synthetics, RUM, SLOs, dashboards, monitors, and alerting.
• Experience with Windows Server and Unix environments, including Linux or Solaris, agent deployment, instrumentation, and OS performance analysis.
• Strong scripting and automation skills with Python, PowerShell, Bash, Datadog API or SDK, and Terraform.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, distributed tracing, metrics pipelines, logging standards, ITSM integrations, and ServiceNow.
• Must have authorization and the right to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Datadog certifications and experience migrating from OpenView, AppDynamics, or Nagios.
• Familiarity with .NET and C#, CI/CD integrations, synthetic testing, network monitoring, and Datadog NPM or NDM.
• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual contributor role with close collaboration across application, SRE/DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams.
• Opportunity to champion Datadog and OpenTelemetry adoption across the engineering organization.
• Benefits include paid time off, medical, dental and vision insurance, retirement benefits, life insurance, and other eligible-employee benefits.