Senior Automation Engineer - Scalable Alerting Platform

Datadog, Inc.; Nantes; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Professional development

Mentor program

Inclusion culture

Job summary

Datadog, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to maintain and scale the Alerting platform. You will work daily with users, understanding their needs, defining solutions, building tooling and communicating with all stakeholders.

You’ll collaborate with SRE and infra teams, lead infrastructure projects, and enhance CI/CD and developer tooling for faster, reliable deployments. This role emphasizes scalable automation and reliability.

Qualifications

• You’re interested in ops and infrastructure challenges, and you’re comfortable writing the code that automates them.
• You can analyze a problem, identify its root cause and propose short-term and long-term solutions.
• You’re a team player, able to work easily with your team members and with many other development teams.
• You communicate appropriately to your audience, from fellow devs to top management.
• You work autonomously across multiple technologies owned by different teams, and you like to discover and learn new ones.
• You think that infrastructure and code are equally important.
• You’re curious about how AI-assisted development changes the way we build and test software, and you enjoy making tooling that works well for both humans and agents.

Responsibilities

• Build automation systems that create and manage Alerting environments, with a focus on fast, realistic test environments that shorten the feedback loop for engineers and AI-assisted development workflows.
• Work with SRE, Core Infrastructure and the Alerting engineering teams to understand their needs and provide solutions.
• Lead infrastructure projects and improve our CI/CD and developer tooling, including our deployment process.
• Identify reliability bottlenecks, then design solutions to mitigate or eliminate them, including load testing and testing of infrastructure configuration before it reaches production.
• Improve infrastructure isolation and make our services scale automatically with load.

Skills

Ops & Infra

Automation

Root cause analysis

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Autonomy across tech

AI-assisted dev

Job description

Datadog, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to maintain and scale the Alerting platform. You will work daily with users, understanding their needs, defining solutions, building tooling and communicating with all stakeholders.

You’ll collaborate with SRE and infra teams, lead infrastructure projects, and enhance CI/CD and developer tooling for faster, reliable deployments. This role emphasizes scalable automation and reliability.