Senior Data Dog Cloud Engineer (Observability)
Work location: Hybrid- 1* week in Washington, D.C. 20002
Type: Contract-to-hire
Clearance: Must be able to obtain/maintain Public Trust
Compensation: $63/HR
What you’ll do (day-to-day)
You’ll be the go-to senior engineer for building and improving an enterprise observability program—using Datadog (or a comparable platform)—to help teams detect issues faster, reduce alert noise, and improve reliability in a 24x7 environment.

Key responsibilities include:


+ Build and run observability tooling across metrics, logs, traces/APM, RUM, synthetics, and network monitoring

+ Create and maintain dashboards, monitors, alerts, SLOs/SLIs that teams actually use (high signal, low noise)

+ Instrument applications and services using agents, OpenTelemetry, and language-specific APM tooling (Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, Go)

+ Improve production performance and reliability using telemetr...