Datadog

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

Datadog$85K — $113K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in technical support or engineering roles
  • Deep understanding of authentication standards (SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, SCIM)
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting authorization issues at an enterprise level
  • Familiarity with auditing and compliance in relation to product problems
  • Excellent skills in data visualization and dashboard design

Responsibilities

  • Develop deep technical expertise in the evolving product landscape
  • Lead investigations for complex escalations and urgent technical challenges
  • Run engaging office hours and mentoring sessions for the Global Support Engineering team
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Product to identify gaps and advocate for customer needs
  • Oversee investigations related to authentication, authorization, and visualization bugs
  • Create internal tools and workflows for efficient issue resolution
  • Coordinate cross-functional investigations ensuring accountability among teams

Benefits

  • Generous and competitive benefits
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Continuous career development opportunities
  • Comprehensive product training
  • Best-in-breed onboarding program
  • Cross-departmental mentor and buddy program
  • Inclusive workplace culture
Full Job Description
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

Bonus points
  • 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.


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.

#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:

$85,000-$113,000 USD

#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:

$85,000-$113,000 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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