Datadog

Federal Support Engineer 3

Datadog$92K — $134K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of technical support in SaaS for regulated public-sector customers
  • Hands-on experience with public-sector environments
  • Proficient in APIs, networking, distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures
  • Experience in hybrid and multi-cloud environments
  • Exceptional communication skills for technical content
  • Strong mentoring capabilities

Responsibilities

  • Engage with customers through various channels to resolve technical issues
  • Troubleshoot complex issues in regulated environments
  • Handle urgent escalations for customer-facing troubleshooting calls
  • Become a subject matter expert in Datadog products
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to validate bugs
  • Mentor junior team members and serve as their escalation partner
  • Support Sales and Customer Success efforts to maximize product adoption

Benefits

  • Comprehensive onboarding process
  • Generous global benefits package
  • Mentor and buddy program for networking support
  • New hire stock equity and employee stock purchase plan
  • Opportunities for continuous professional development
  • Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Full Job Description
As a Federal Support Engineer 3, this role places you at the forefront of supporting these customers' mission-critical workloads. These complex workloads are often deployed across sophisticated hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, requiring deep expertise in cloud technologies, monitoring, and security best practices. Your primary responsibility is to ensure the complete success of these customers across their entire lifecycle with Datadog. Whether you're looking to learn from the best or be the best, the Federal Support team is dedicated to furthering personal development and team success.

What You'll Do:
  • Engage with public sector customers via multiple channels (ticketing system, live chat, calls, and screensharing tools) to identify and resolve technical support requests.
  • Troubleshoot, investigate, and resolve complex technical issues in highly constrained environments across Datadog's 1000+ integrations, often with limited logs or sanitized data.
  • Handle urgent escalation cases that may result in customer-facing troubleshooting calls, and internal or external incident management
  • Become a subject matter expert in many Datadog product areas
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Account teams to to validate bugs and advocate for customer-impacting improvements
  • Provide mentorship to junior members of the team and serve as their escalation partner
  • Partner closely with Sales and Customer Success to remove technical blockers, support trials, and drive product adoption
  • Work from a Datadog office 3 - 5 days per week


Who You Are:
  • A candidate with hands-on experience delivering technical support to public-sector environments and strictly regulated workloads.
  • 5+ years of experience delivering technical support within SaaS environments for highly regulated public-sector customers.
  • Experienced with APIs and RESTful interfaces, with strong knowledge of networking concepts, distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more Cloud technologies and ability to diagnose issues in hybrid and multi-cloud environments
  • An exceptional written and verbal communicator, with experience communicating complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • A strong mentor to your technical peers
  • A critical thinker with the capacity to understand a complex technical problem
  • Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and able to continuously learn
  • Deep expertise in identifying root causes across APIs, networking, cloud infrastructure, and operating-system layers.
  • Able to work an on-call rotating schedule that requires weekend availability


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

To conform to U.S. export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

Benefits and Growth:
  • Best-in-breed onboarding
  • Generous global benefits
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks


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

#LI-Hybrid

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:

$92,000-$134,000 USD

About Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. The company was founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc and is headquartered in New York City. Datadog's platform assists organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across dynamic or high-scale infrastructures. The company's SaaS-based data analytics platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of customers' entire technology stack. Datadog's customers include Airbnb, Twilio, and The Washington Post.
Learn more about Datadog
Size
3,200 employees
Market Cap
$22.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$24.5 million
Founded
2010
Revenue
$603.4 million
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