Site Reliability Engineer

Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or high-scale infrastructure. Because Datadog collects metrics and events from 100+ different technologies and services out of the box, including other monitoring tools, you can monitor your entire stack in one place, without any gaps.

• Keep our service reliable, available and fast as a member of the operations team.
• Respond to, investigate and fix service issues, whether they be deep in the OS kernel or in the application code.
• Design, build and maintain the infrastructure we need to support orders of magnitude more customers.

Who you must be

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field
• You have a track record as an engineer in the operations of a large site
• You value correctness and efficiency; you leave no stone unturned when diagnosing production issues
• You handle infrastructure with code because automation lets you focus on the more difficult and rewarding problems
• You have production experience with distributed compute/storage tools, e.g. zookeeper, cassandra, postgres, kafka, elasticsearch redis

Bonus Points

• You have submitted bug fixes to the aforementioned projects
• You are fully fluent in python, ruby and go