DataDog Observability Engineer - Part Time (R-00231)

Role overview

This part-time, senior-level engineering role focuses on designing, deploying, and operating enterprise observability platforms built around Datadog for secure, mission-critical, and healthcare environments. The position blends deep hands-on technical work with client-facing guidance, requiring someone who can architect reliable monitoring stacks while helping teams adopt production-grade operational practices.

Responsibilities

- Architect and operate Datadog environments spanning infrastructure monitoring, application performance, log management, and synthetic testing across large, distributed systems - Lead observability implementations that meet healthcare-grade uptime, data integrity, and patient-safety-critical alerting standards - Build dashboards, alerts, and detection workflows that surface health, performance, and risk signals across applications and infrastructure - Guide internal teams and client stakeholders on observability strategy, configuration standards, and operational maturity - Integrate endpoint and asset visibility from Tanium into the broader monitoring and security architecture when applicable - Ensure the observability stack aligns with HIPAA and other regulatory obligations tied to healthcare workloads

Requirements

- Extensive hands-on experience architecting and operating Datadog at enterprise scale - Deep familiarity with infrastructure monitoring, APM, log pipelines, and synthetic testing tooling - Experience supporting healthcare applications or other regulated, mission-critical production environments - Working understanding of HIPAA-aligned operations, including alerting standards and audit considerations - Demonstrated ability to lead technical engagements and advise cross-functional engineering teams - Strong judgment around reliability, scalability, and incident-response readiness

Nice to have

- Prior experience integrating Tanium endpoint visibility with Datadog or comparable observability platforms

Benefits and work setup

Part-time schedule; broader benefits specific to the engagement were not described in the available source material.