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Incident and Escalations Manager 3 - US-West

Datadog· GSE / Incident and Escalations Management
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Hybrid (Denver; San Francisco)$104k - $138kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor in Datadog's Global Support Engineering organization focused on incident management and escalation handling, with responsibilities spanning customer communications, cross-functional coordination, and process improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Drive incidents and escalations to resolution from start to finish, including triage, coordination with our support, engineering and product teams. Own the response and keep customers and internal teams informed throughout.
  • Independently coordinate cross-functional stakeholders through complex incidents and escalations, making the call on prioritization, response strategy, and when to pull in additional teams or leadership.
  • Own communications during active incidents, including sensitive, large-scale, and publicly visible events, adapting the message for customers, internal teams, and leadership.
  • Lead projects that deliver operational improvements to how IEM detects, manages, and communicates during incidents and escalations as Datadog and its products evolve.
  • Create, maintain, and improve incident and escalation documentation, runbooks, and training materials, and lead retrospectives that turn individual incidents into durable process change.
  • Mentor peers on incident and escalation management best practices, and contribute to interviewing and hiring.
  • Design and implement real-time and proactive monitoring of customer infrastructure to surface customer-impacting risks before they escalate.
  • Identify recurring cloud infrastructure and product issues across incidents and escalations, and partner with Engineering to feed findings back and reduce recurrence.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of related professional experience, including experience in incident management and customer escalations, with demonstrable ownership of complex incidents and critical customer situations; experience in a SaaS, cloud, or observability environment is a plus
  • 2+ years of experience in a hands-on technical role at a software or cloud company, such as Support Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or a similar technical function
  • Strong familiarity with cloud computing and modern software architectures; scripting ability in Python, JavaScript, or shell is a plus
  • Ability to correlate behaviors across known system interdependencies, assess customer and technical impact, and make sound decisions while remaining calm in high-pressure and ambiguous situations
  • Experience independently coordinating cross-functional stakeholders and driving complex incidents and escalations toward resolution
  • Experience driving projects from conception through delivery, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and customer-facing audiences
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science/Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Skills

Required:Incident managementCross-functional coordinationCommunicationProject leadership
Nice to have:Monitoring design

Benefits

  • Generous and competitive US benefits
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
  • Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
  • Best in breed onboarding
  • Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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