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Data Dog Cloud Engineer

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Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 6/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/17/2026
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Job Title: Software Specialist V (Data Dog Cloud Engineer Senior)

Location: Washington DC

Duration: 6 Months Contract

Experience:

  • Minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure or platform engineering roles, including 5 years focused on observability, performance engineering, or site reliability engineering.
  • Demonstrated experience engineering and operating an enterprise observability platform (Datadog strongly preferred; equivalent experience with Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk Observability, or Grafana/Prometheus stacks considered).
  • Proven experience building APM and distributed tracing coverage for production multi-tier applications -- including language-specific tracer deployment, custom instrumentation of business transactions, service/dependency mapping, continuous profiling, and RUM-to-backend trace correlation -- across cloud and containerized workloads.
  • Proven experience leading complex production performance and reliability problem-solving from telemetry to remediation.

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