Senior Software Engineer - Alerting Platform Automation at Datadog · Nantes; Paris
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<li>You’re interested in ops and infrastructure challenges, and you’re comfortable writing the code that automates them.</li>
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<li>You can analyze a problem, identify its root cause and propose short-term and long-term solutions.</li>
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<li>You’re a team player, able to work easily with your team members and with many other development teams.</li>
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<li>You communicate appropriately to your audience, from fellow devs to top management.</li>
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<li>You work autonomously across multiple technologies owned by different teams, and you like to discover and learn new ones.</li>
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<li>You think that infrastructure and code are equally important.</li>
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<li>You’re curious about how AI-assisted development changes the way we build and test software, and you enjoy making tooling that works wel
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<p><em>Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s ok
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: CI/CD is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Networking is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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