Senior Software Engineer - Incident Insights & Readiness

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The Incident Insights & Readiness SRE team at Datadog fosters a resilient culture by using incidents as learning opportunities and catalysts for growth. Our users are Datadog engineers, and we build the software, tooling, and operational frameworks that help them prepare for, respond to, and learn from incidents. We work closely with engineering teams across Datadog to analyze incidents and turn those insights into better tools, stronger incident response, and organizational learning. Our efforts empower Datadog to navigate unexpected failures confidently, efficiently, and with a commitment to continuous learning and systems improvement. 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: • Own and improve the on-call experience for the company by establishing best practices and building platforms to support on-call rotations and compensation. • Define how we respond to incidents, lead the design and implementation of software to streamline the process, and collaborate…