Homeoffice Senior Engineer (Datadog SME) at Velotio Technologies

About Velotio:

Velotio Technologies is a product engineering company working with innovative startups and enterprises. We are a certified Great Place to Work® and recognized as one of the best companies to work for in India. We have provided full-stack product development for 110+ startups across the globe building products in the cloud-native, data engineering, B2B SaaS, IoT & Machine Learning space. Our team of 400+ elite software engineers solves hard technical problems while transforming customer ideas into successful products.

Responsibilities:

• Convert business SLAs/SLOs into technical implementations
• Own full stack across APM, Logs, Metrics, RUM, Synthetics, Service Catalog, etc.
• Enforce best practices for PII hygiene, redaction, and SLOs
• Design robust monitors (threshold, anomaly, composite, etc.)
• Generate reports on MTTD/MTTR, alert noise, cost by service/team
• Everything as code: Terraform, APIs, CI/CD
• FinOps- Primary KPI- As the primary KPI for this role, you will lead a structured and data-driven FinOps initiative to significantly reduce Datadog spend across logs, metrics, traces, synthetics, and RUM—by implementing targeted strategies.

Requirements

Desired Skills & Experience:

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Observability roles
• 3+ years hands-on experience with Datadog, covering APM, Logs, Metrics, Dashboards, and SLOs
• Proven client-facing experience: leading workshops, stakeholder alignment, proposals
• Strong in Datadog pipelines, tagging, alerting, dashboards, and cost controls
• Proficiency with Terraform (Datadog Provider) or Datadog APIs
• Git-based workflows and CI/CD for observability configuration
• Familiarity with incident management tools like PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Slack
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

Our Culture:

• We have an autonomous and empowered work culture encouraging individuals to take ownership and grow quickly
• Flat hierarchy with fast decision making and a startup-oriented “get things done” culture
• A strong, fun & positive environment with regular celebrations of our success. We pride ourselves in creating an inclusive, diverse & authentic environment

At Velotio, we embrace diversity. Inclusion is a priority for us, and we are eager to foster an environment where everyone feels valued. We welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.