A recognized services company is actively seeking an experienced professional to join their team as their new Principal Datadog Engineer or a Senior Datadog Engineer / Architect.

About the Opportunity:
- Assignment Length: 6+ months (possible extension)
- Setting: Remote
Responsibilities:
- Design, architect, and scale enterprise observability solutions using Datadog across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and security platforms
- Own and drive enterprise-level observability strategy and architecture
- Serve as a final decision-maker for observability standards, tooling approaches, and long-term platform direction
- Architect dashboards, monitors, and alerting frameworks aligned to business, operational, and reliability requirements
- Define and implement best practices for metrics, logs, traces, and anomaly detection
- Lead deployment and configuration of Datadog agents, APIs, integrations, and automation across complex, multi-cloud environments
- Integrate Datadog with CI/CD pipelines, logging platforms, and collaboration tools (e.g., GitLab, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack)
- Identify observability gaps and drive improvements in signal quality, reliability, and incident response
- Optimize Datadog usage and licensing costs while maintaining strong coverage and actionable insights
- Partner closely with DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Application, and Security teams to embed observability into daily operations
- Produce clear documentation and contribute to knowledge sharing across teams
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of Engineering experience
- Hands-on experience designing and owning Datadog observability solutions (not execution-only roles)
- Proven experience as a technical decision-maker in a modern software development environment
- Strong experience with:
- Datadog Monitoring, APM, Distributed Tracing, and alerting
- Cloud platforms and DevOps / SRE practices
- CI/CD integrations and automation
- Scripting and configuration skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML, etc.)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business stakeholders
Desired Skills:
- Datadog certifications (Fundamentals, APM, Distributed Tracing, or equivalent)
- Experience optimizing observability cost and usage at enterprise scale
- Experience mentoring teams and influencing technical standards
- Background working in large, complex, or regulated enterprise environments
