Recruiter screen, technical phone (Linux internals + networking), virtual onsite with coding round, incident response case, deep-dive, and behavioral. SRE at Datadog is reliability-engineering-meets-software-engineering.
Walk me through your worst on-call incident and what you learned.
Tell me about automating away a recurring operational pain.
Describe partnering with a product team on improving service SLOs.
How do you balance feature velocity with reliability investment?
Sales Engineer
virtual
· Difficulty 4/5
Recruiter screen, hiring manager video, customer scenario demo (assigned 48 hours prior), technical Q&A, behavioral, and final with regional director. SE at Datadog runs many of the largest enterprise deals.
Walk me through a complex customer environment you helped instrument.
Tell me about losing a deal to a competitor. What was the root cause?
Describe presenting Datadog to a deeply skeptical SRE team.
How do you partner with the AE on a multi-product expansion?
Product Manager
virtual
· Difficulty 4/5
Recruiter screen, hiring manager call, product-sense round on APM, analytical round, cross-functional with engineering, and exec final. Datadog PMs are deeply technical — know APM internals.
Walk me through prioritizing customer-impact bugs vs. roadmap features.
Tell me about a launch that underperformed and what you learned.
Describe partnering with engineering on a tough architectural decision.
How do you measure success for a product feature that's deeply infrastructure?