Senior SRE: Incident Insights & Readiness

Datadog, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs stock equity

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development

Job summary

Datadogs is seeking a senior SRE to own and improve the on-call experience and incident response tooling. You will collaborate with product teams to streamline procedures, contribute to post-mortems, and reduce friction while embedding with engineering squads to boost reliability.

You have 5+ years building distributed systems and improving incident response, with Go/Python strengths and Kubernetes familiarity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building software that solves real user problems.
• Experience designing features and participating in code and design reviews.
• Proficient in Go and Python; some TypeScript experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve on-call experience; define best practices and platforms.
• Lead design and implement incident response tooling to streamline processes.
• Contribute to post-mortems and drive learning value; run weekly postmortem discussions.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Incident management

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Datadogs is seeking a senior SRE to own and improve the on-call experience and incident response tooling. You will collaborate with product teams to streamline procedures, contribute to post-mortems, and reduce friction while embedding with engineering squads to boost reliability.

You have 5+ years building distributed systems and improving incident response, with Go/Python strengths and Kubernetes familiarity.