Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Web Platform) - US-West

Datadog, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits

RSUs

Career development

Product training

Onboarding

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Datadog, Inc. is seeking a Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Web Platform) for the US-West region. You will develop deep expertise, lead high‑stakes technical calls, and mentor global teams to resolve complex platform issues.

You will partner with Engineering and Product, iterate on improvements, and own end‑to‑end investigations across authentication, identity, and the visualization stack. A strong IAM background is valued.

Qualifications

• Self-driven problem solver with obsession for excellence and continuous learning.
• Strategic, client-centric mindset balancing feasibility and experience.
• Independent, fast learner adapting to evolving priorities.
• Collaborator and mentor, elevating team performance.
• Familiar with authentication standards (SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, SCIM) and debugging access issues.
• Experienced investigating authorization at enterprise scale across roles and data access.
• Comfortable with audit/compliance as a product problem and governance of accounts.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep technical expertise and stay current with product evolution.
• Investigate escalations, lead high-stakes calls, and drive urgent resolutions.
• Run learning sessions and mentor Global Support Engineering team.
• Partner with Eng/Prod to identify gaps and advocate for customer needs.
• Own Web Platform investigations including authentication, dashboards, and visualization stack.
• Coordinate cross-team investigations and ensure accountability for outcomes.
• Develop internal tooling and reusable workflows for efficiency.

Skills

Problem solving

Client-centric

Independent learner

Mentor

Auth standards

Authorization audit

Admin persona

Data visualization

Graph troubleshooting

Enterprise IAM

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Zendesk

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Web Platform) - US-West

As Datadog’s in-house product experts, the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team plays a critical role in driving our global success. We enable our customers, from the world’s most innovative startups to the largest enterprises.

Through deep technical expertise, relentless problem‑solving, and exceptional customer engagement, we educate, guide, and troubleshoot, delivering high-impact solutions that shape the customer experience. Whether through hands‑on technical call, in‑depth fact findings meeting, or complex investigations, we set the gold standard for technical excellence and customer advocacy.

As part of our TEE team, you’ll tackle the most challenging technical problems, collaborate directly with Engineering and Product to refine and evolve our platform, and mentor teams worldwide, elevating the technical bar at every level.

As part of the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team, you’ll operate at the heart of Datadog’s ecosystem, working at the intersection of Technical Solutions, Engineering, Product, and our Customers. Every challenge you take on will directly impact the performance, scalability, and success of both our clients and our platform. You’ll be in an environment that moves fast, challenges you daily, and rewards curiosity, ownership, and technical excellence.

This is your chance to shape the future of observability and security, driving innovation, mentoring teams, and influencing product direction while witnessing your expertise make an immediate and lasting impact.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work‑life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop deep technical expertise and continuously learn as the product evolves.
• Investigate complex escalations, lead high‑stakes technical calls, and drive solutions for our most critical customer challenges with urgency and precision.
• Run engaging office hours, deliver impactful learning sessions, and mentor the Global Support Engineering team (GSE), ensuring they’re equipped to handle any challenge.
• Partner with Engineering and Product to proactively identify gaps, drive improvements, and advocate for customers in shaping the evolution of our platform.
• Become the go‑to expert for the Web Platform experience at Datadog, owning investigations across authentication, authorization, identity, enterprise administration, and the full visualization stack of our graphing features (e.g. dashboards, notebooks, sheets, DDSQL)
• Handle complex escalations related to login failures, broken dashboards, permission mismatches, audit discrepancies, and visualization bugs.
• Coordinate investigations that span several product areas at once, keeping every team involved working from the same picture and staying accountable for the outcome even when the fix belongs to someone else
• Develop internal tooling, debugging guides, and reusable workflows to help TSEs resolve access and UI issues efficiently and consistently.

Who You Are:

• A self‑driven problem solver with an obsession for excellence and continuous learning. You thrive in ambiguity, take initiative, and push beyond expectations.
• A strategic thinker who defaults to a client‑centric approach, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance customer experience while balancing technical feasibility.
• An independent, fast learner, capable of picking up new technologies, adapting to evolving priorities, and crafting innovative solutions to complex technical issues.
• A collaborator and mentor, who enjoys sharing knowledge, raising the technical bar for the team, and contributing to a culture of excellence.
• Deeply familiar with authentication standards and patterns (SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, SCIM), and confident debugging access issues across identity providers and account configurations.
• Experienced investigating authorization at enterprise scale, across roles, permissions, data restrictions, and credential lifecycle
• Comfortable with audit and compliance as a product problem rather than just a log, able to reconstruct who did what, when, and why, and to recognize when the record itself is what’s broken
• Familiar with the admin persona: managing users and organizations, applying governance controls, and keeping a large account coherent as it grows
• Fluent in data visualization as a discipline, with opinions about which chart suits which question and what makes a dashboard readable at a glance
• Able to troubleshoot a graph end to end, from configuration through query resolution to how it finally renders
• Computer Science or Engineering majors
• Experienced in using Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, or similar softwares.
• Familiarity with Datadog, integrations ecosystem, or similar observability platforms is a strong plus.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the below qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• Generous and competitive benefits
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Product training to develop an in‑depth understanding of our product and space
• Best in breed onboarding
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross‑departmentally
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$85,000 — $113,000 USD

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high‑growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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