Datadog Application Observability Engineer

Position Overview

We are looking for a Datadog Observability Engineer with strong experience implementing Datadog at the application layer . The role focuses on instrumenting business applications, enabling distributed tracing, improving application performance visibility, correlating logs / metrics, and providing real-time insights into user journeys, errors, latency, and reliability.

The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with backend / frontend developers, QA, product, and DevOps , helping teams build high-quality observability into their services and customer experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Implement and manage Datadog APM, Real User Monitoring (RUM), Distributed Tracing, Service Monitoring, and Application Logs across multiple applications.
• Instrument application code with Datadog libraries, OpenTelemetry, or native integrations to capture business KPIs and performance metrics.
• Configure synthetic tests, error tracking, and frontend performance dashboards to monitor user experience and critical paths.
• Create meaningful dashboards for :
• latency and throughput
• endpoint / API performance
• error rates and exceptions
• RUM user behavior and UX performance
• SLA / SLO trends at the application level
• Lead the creation of alerting strategies based on real application behavior , including anomaly detection, latency spikes, and error bursts.
• Correlate logs, metrics, and trace data to perform root-cause analysis of application failures and performance degradation .
• Work with development teams to :
• define observability requirements early in development
• integrate monitoring into CI / CD and test environments
• improve tagging, business context, and trace spans
• Conduct application performance reviews and identify opportunities for :
• response-time improvement
• database or API bottlenecks
• code-level optimizations
• Train developers and QA on how to use Datadog tools for debugging, troubleshooting, and performance testing .
• Recommend improvements to observability maturity and documentation.

Required Skills

Preferred Skills