At Datadog, we don’t just support our products, we master them. 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, to harness the full power of Datadog’s platform, ensuring their growth, reliability, and performance.
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. This is not just a support role; this is a career-defining opportunity to push boundaries, grow as an expert, and make a tangible impact on both our customers and Datadog’s future.
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.
The JobJoin a team of elite problem-solvers from diverse backgrounds, engineers, innovators, and technologists, united by a passion for tackling complex challenges the right way. We don’t just fix problems, we redefine solutions.
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. If you’re ready to elevate your career and push technical boundaries, this is where you belong.
You Are- Familiar with SaaS platforms and how they integrate with observability tools through APIs, webhooks, OAuth flows, and third-party apps.
- Comfortable debugging issues around event ingestion, webhook failures, auth errors, misconfigured scopes, or broken integration payloads.
- Experienced with REST APIs, payload formats (JSON), tokens/keys, and security best practices around app connections and identity federation.
- Curious and methodical, able to piece together integration flows across platforms like GitHub, Slack, Jira, Okta, and more to understand root causes.
- Customer-first, and driven to help teams connect their operational tools to make their workflows smarter, faster, and more resilient.
- 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 customer advocate, experienced in high-stakes technical support or solutions engineering, comfortable tackling difficult customer challenges, and turning problems into opportunities.
- An expert in your craft. Whether it’s debugging, performance tuning, automation, or another specialization, you bring mastery in a domain and the curiosity to expand beyond it.
- A collaborator and mentor, who enjoys sharing knowledge, raising the technical bar for the team, and contributing to a culture of excellence.
- Become the technical point of contact for SaaS and Web Integrations within the Technical Solutions team, specializing in external systems that power Datadog's workflows.
- Work with SaaS providers like Servicenow, Cloudflare, Snowflake and their APIs
- Lead investigations into failed integrations, webhook delivery issues, broken user mappings, misfiring automations, or missing third-party data.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and partner teams to escalate bugs, validate fixes, and shape the roadmap for a seamless integration experience.
- Build reusable tools, diagnostics, and internal guides to help TSEs support integrations confidently and independently.
- Train and enable the global Solutions team with best practices for API troubleshooting, OAuth setup, and securing workflows between Datadog and third-party services.
- Develop deep technical expertise, continuously learn as the product evolves, and become the go-to authority in your domain.
- Investigate complex escalations, lead high-stakes technical calls, and drive solutions for our most critical customer challenges with urgency and precision.
- Craft clear, insightful documentation and knowledge base articles that make even the toughest concepts accessible to all.
- Run engaging office hours, deliver impactful learning sessions, and mentor the Global Support Engineering team (GSE), ensuring they’re equipped to handle any challenge.
- Prepare the global Technical Solutions department for cutting-edge products and features, setting the bar for technical excellence.
- Partner with Engineering and Product to proactively identify gaps, drive meaningful improvements, and advocate for customers in shaping the evolution of our platform.
- CS or Engineering majors
- Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engineering Community (Meetups, etc.)
- Experience using Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, or similar softwares
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.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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