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Senior Software Engineer, Chaos Engineering

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Paris, France

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About the Role

At Datadog, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Technology space, Observe, Secure, and Optimize Modern Cloud Infrastructure at Scale.

Datadog’s Chaos Engineering team builds systems that surface reliability weaknesses before they become outages. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will initially focus on zonal resilience, building automation that helps services safely evacuate and recover from zonal failures, while also contributing to fault injection, incident replay, gameday orchestration, and reliability tooling. You will work across engineering teams to design systems that safely exercise production failure modes and turn findings into verified remediation. You will also help advance the use of AI and automation to identify, test, and close resilience gaps as Datadog’s software and infrastructure evolve.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

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<li>Build zonal-resilience automation that coordinates safe workload evacuations, switchovers, and recovery in partnership with the teams that own affected services.</li>

<li>Design and build fault-injection systems for production environments, including infrastructure- and application-level testing, incident replay, and controlled resilience experiments.</li>

<li>Develop safeguards such as blast-radius controls, kill switches, validation mechanisms, and rollback paths that keep production experiments contained and reversible.</li>

<li>Build agents and automation that help propose failure scenarios, triage experiment results, and connect reliability findings to tracked remediation and verification.</li>

<li>Lead gamedays from hypothesis and scenario design through execution, documented findings, remediation tracking, and validation of completed fixes.</li>

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Datadog is a leading Cloud company that provides monitoring and analytics solutions. The company operates a global presence with headquarters in New York serving as the primary operational base for key executive leadership and corporate functions including engineering, product, sales, and executive leadership. Datadog maintains additional offices across the Americas in Boston, Denver, San Francisco, and throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, and South America.

Please review the specific job listing or contact Datadog's recruiting team for details on remote or hybrid work options for this role.

Salary information may vary by role and location. Please check the specific job listing or discuss compensation during the interview process.

Datadog is an established organization in its industry. The company focuses on maintaining a supportive workplace culture for all employees.

Key benefit categories include: Financial Benefits, Health & Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Community & Growth. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Collaborative Problem-Solving and Ownership Mentality and Continuous Learning Culture.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Empower Ownership and Accountability and Champion Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

Datadog has a supportive and collaborative culture, recognized as a loved place to work by its team members.

Datadog currently has 444 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Dev Eng, Engineering Interns, Commercial Sales. You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/datadog/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact Datadog's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.