What's the salary range?

Datadog lists $85,000–$113,000 for this role.

Where is the role based?

Datadog is hiring for this position in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

What seniority level is this role?

Datadog targets mid-level candidates for this position.

Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Revenue and Cost Management)

Joblaze summary

In the role of Technical Escalations Engineer 2 at Datadog, the individual will address complex technical issues related to usage metering and cloud cost management, ensuring customers optimize their spending across various product lines. Key skills include a strong understanding of cloud billing models and the ability to analyze data retention and usage metrics, alongside effective communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This position is well-suited for someone with a background in technical support or engineering, who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is eager to mentor others. The role is part of a collaborative team that values curiosity and technical exce

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 10, 2026. Last confirmed on Datadog's careers page October 10, 2026.
Salary band is below the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$129,591).
Starts above 15% of 1322 comparable mid other roles in United States we track (median $105,000 across 176 companies).

Quick facts

Is the Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Revenue and Cost Management) - US-East role remote?: It's hybrid — Datadog expects some on-site time in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
What's the salary range?: Datadog lists $85,000–$113,000 for this role.
Where is the role based?: Datadog is hiring for this position in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
What seniority level is this role?: Datadog targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Revenue and Cost Management) - US-East role at Datadog.

From the original posting

As Datadog’s in-house product experts, the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team plays a critical role in driving our global success. We enable our customers, from the world’s most innovative startups to the largest enterprises.

Through deep technical expertise, relentless problem-solving, and exceptional customer engagement, we educate, guide, and troubleshoot, delivering high-impact solutions that shape the customer experience. Whether through hands-on technical call, in-depth fact findings meeting, or complex investigations, we set the gold standard for technical excellence and customer advocacy.

As part of our TEE team, you’ll tackle the most challenging technical problems, collaborate directly with Engineering and Product to refine and evolve our platform, and mentor teams worldwide, elevating the technical bar at every level.

As part of the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team, you’ll operate at the heart of Datadog’s ecosystem, working at the intersection of Technical Solutions, Engineering, Product, and our Customers. Every challenge you take on will directly impact the performance, scalability, and success of both our clients and our platform. You’ll be in an environment that moves fast, challenges you daily, and rewards curiosity, ownership, and technical excellence.

This is your chance to shape the future of observability and security, driving innovation, mentoring teams, and influencing product direction while witnessing your expertise make an immediate and lasting impact.

What You’ll Do:

Become the expert on usage metering, revenue-impacting behavior, and Cloud Cost Management within Technical Solutions, helping customers optimize usage and control spend across all Datadog product lines.
Lead escalations involving unexpected usage, missing metering data, usage spikes, billing anomalies, unclear attribution, or limits enforcement (e.g., quotas, plans, exclusions, overages).
Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Finance to escalate bugs, align on expected behavior, improve usage visibility, and drive transparency and fairness in billing and usage tracking.
Build internal guides, tooling, diagnostics, and playbooks — plus customer-facing content — that help teams confidently handle billing- and revenue-related questions and forecast, reduce, and monitor observability costs.
Enable the global Solutions team by running training sessions and building scalable resources that empower others to support usage, billing, and cost-related conversations effectively.
Act as a voice of the customer, surfacing feedback and patterns to help shape the roadmap for usage visibility, billing transparency, and cost management.

Who You Are:

Curious and detail-oriented when it comes to how usage is measured, attributed, and billed across products — including usage limits, overages, metering discrepancies, plan entitlements, and customer contract constraints.
Passionate about helping customers optimize their cloud footprint, with a strong grasp of cloud cost drivers, usage attribution, and spend analysis.
Familiar with cloud billing models (AWS, Azure, GCP) — usage types, tags, accounts/projects — and how that data is exposed via APIs and billing exports.
Comfortable digging into data retention, high-cardinality signals, metric volume, log ingestion, and overage prevention, and able to translate telemetry volume into cost impact.
Familiar with APIs, product usage metrics, tagging strategies, and the nuances of account-level configurations and multi-org setups.
Experienced working across technical and business boundaries — equally
comfortable with backend telemetry pipelines and customer-facing impact and urgency.
Analytical and precise, able to communicate usage and cost impact clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable working with ambiguity, data anomalies, and edge cases, and committed to finding root causes that drive customer trust.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the below qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Bonus points

Computer Science or Engineering majors
Experienced in using Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, or similar softwares.

Familiarity with Datadog, integrations ecosystem, or similar observability platforms is a strong plus.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the below qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits & Growth:

Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health
Generous global benefits

#LI-Hybrid

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$85,000—$113,000 USD

About Datadog:

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Technical Escalations Engineer 2 (Revenue and Cost Management) - US-East

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