Datadog Observability Engineer - APM, Logs & SRE

Exasoft; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Exasoft in Singapore is seeking a seasoned observability engineer to manage and optimize the Datadog platform across APM, logs, metrics, and tracing. You will design dashboards, alerts, service maps, and custom monitoring solutions to ensure reliable services and clear visibility.

You will implement APM, distributed tracing, RUM, log analytics, and synthetic monitoring; define KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs, and integrate Datadog with incident tools like ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information technology or equivalent.
• 5-8 years of experience in monitoring, infrastructure, or application support.
• 3+ years of hands-on Datadog experience across APM, Logs, Metrics, RUM, and Synthetics.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of observability principles including metrics, logs, and traces.
• Experience with Terraform and ITIL processes is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize Datadog observability platform and monitoring configurations.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, service maps, and custom monitoring solutions.
• Implement APM, distributed tracing, RUM, log analytics, and synthetic monitoring.
• Define and track KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs to support service reliability.
• Integrate Datadog with incident management tools such as ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and SRE teams to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.
• Automate monitoring and reporting using Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Document best practices and provide technical guidance to team members.

Skills

Observability concepts

Team collaboration

SRE practices

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

ServiceNow

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

Exasoft in Singapore is seeking a seasoned observability engineer to manage and optimize the Datadog platform across APM, logs, metrics, and tracing. You will design dashboards, alerts, service maps, and custom monitoring solutions to ensure reliable services and clear visibility.

You will implement APM, distributed tracing, RUM, log analytics, and synthetic monitoring; define KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs, and integrate Datadog with incident tools like ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie.