Observability Engineer (DataDog)

Sr. Software Engineer / Observability Engineer

Contract until end of year/ 10 months.

Overview

The Observability Engineer is responsible for helping migrate from SignalFX to Datadog stakeholders through a value-driven migration from legacy monitoring platforms (e.g., SignalFX/Splunk Observability Cloud) to modern observability solutions such as Datadog. This role emphasizes rationalization, optimization, and enablement—ensuring that migrated dashboards and metrics are cost-efficient.

Overview

The Observability Engineer is responsible for helping migrate from SignalFX to Datadog

stakeholders through a value-driven migration from legacy monitoring platforms (e.g.,

SignalFX/Splunk Observability Cloud) to modern observability solutions such as Datadog. This

role emphasizes rationalization, optimization, and enablement—ensuring that migrated

dashboards and metrics are cost-efficient.

Key Responsibilities

● Assessment & Rationalization

○ Work with customers to help them decide which dashboards to migrate,

refactor, or retire based on business impact.

● Datadog Optimization

○ Map legacy dashboards to Datadog’s native templates and features.

○ Leverage AWS integrations and out-of-the-box dashboards to reduce custom

build effort.

● Stakeholder Enablement

○ Educate Infra, App, and DevOps teams on Datadog’s capabilities and best

practices.

○ Ability to collaboratively train and document supporting long-term dashboard

ownership.

Required Skills & Experience

● Proven expertise in Datadog, including AWS integrations and dashboard templating.

● Experience with SignalFX/Splunk Observability Cloud and legacy monitoring

paradigms.

● Experience working across Infra, App, and DevOps teams to create relevant metrics.

● Experience with applying SRE concepts

● Strong understanding of AWS architecture and cloud-native observability.

● Strong understanding of monitoring distributed systems

● Familiarity with OpenShift or Kubernetes

● Familiarity with Ansible

● Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code concepts

● Familiarity with OpenTelemetry

● 3 years of Python development experience

● Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

● Certifications in Datadog, AWS, or related observability platforms.

● Experience in enterprise-scale monitoring transformations.

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