Senior Chaos Engineer - Resilience Automation Lead

Datadog, Inc.; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career growth

AI in reliability

Job summary

Datadog’s Chaos Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to advance zonal resilience, building automation that safely evacuates and recovers services during zonal failures while contributing to fault injection and incident replay. You will lead resilience experiments and help evolve AI-assisted operational workflows across production systems.

You will collaborate with multiple teams to design reliable distributed components (gRPC, Kubernetes controllers) and mentor engineers, shaping

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, retries and idempotency.
• Experience building or operating production systems with high safety and availability.
• Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build zonal-resilience automation for safe evacuations and recoveries.
• Design and build fault-injection systems for production environments and resilience experiments.
• Develop safeguards and rollback paths to keep production experiments contained.

Skills

Distributed systems

Chaos engineering

Reliability engineering

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

gRPC

Automation frameworks

Job description

Datadog’s Chaos Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to advance zonal resilience, building automation that safely evacuates and recovers services during zonal failures while contributing to fault injection and incident replay. You will lead resilience experiments and help evolve AI-assisted operational workflows across production systems.

You will collaborate with multiple teams to design reliable distributed components (gRPC, Kubernetes controllers) and mentor engineers, shaping