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Customer Success Engineer, Database (2nd Shift)
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We are looking for a Customer Success Engineer, Database who is passionate about cloud infrastructure, database technologies, and delivering exceptional customer experiences, while providing high-touch, white-glove support to strategic accounts.
As a Customer Success Engineer at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to supporting and empowering customers to successfully run their workloads on our platform. You will work closely with customers to troubleshoot issues, optimize database performance, and guide them in adopting best practices across managed databases and cloud infrastructure.
In this role, you will build strong technical depth across database systems and DigitalOcean products while developing your ability to handle increasingly complex customer scenarios. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Engineering to ensure seamless customer outcomes. This role reports to the Manager, Customer Success Engineer.
What You'll Do
- Deliver hands-on technical support for database and cloud infrastructure issues across technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Valkey (Redis), MongoDB and Clickhouse, with exposure to cloud-native and Kubernetes environments
- Diagnose and resolve production issues impacting database performance, availability, replication, backups, and connectivity
- Guide customers in designing scalable, reliable, and high-performing database architectures on DigitalOcean
- Collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders to support onboarding, migrations, customer success, and the resolution of complex escalations.
- on complex escalations, contributing to root cause analysis and resolution
- Analyze customer architectures to identify improvement opportunities and recommend best practices
- Participate in incident response and on-call rotations to support critical customer issues
- Contribute to team growth through case reviews and knowledge sharing, while developing and maintaining technical documentation and playbooks to drive continuous improvement.
- Advocate for customer feedback to influence product improvements and platform enhancements
- Identify opportunities to leverage automation and AI tools to streamline support workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve response quality.
- Use monitoring and observability tools to diagnose performance bottlenecks and system behavior.
Key Metrics
- Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
- Time to Resolution / SLA adherence
- Escalation quality and resolution effectiveness
- Documentation and knowledge base contributions
- Customer adoption of best practices
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean
Required Experience & skills
- 2–5 years of experience in technical support, DevOps, cloud engineering, or similar roles
- Hands-on experience with some of the major database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Clickhouse), with some familiarity across Kafka and others.
- Strong Foundational knowledge of Linux, networking, and cloud infrastructure concepts
- Understanding of database fundamentals including backups, replication, indexing, and performance tuning
- Strong troubleshooting skills across application, database, and infrastructure layers
- Customer-first mindset with a passion for solving technical problems and delivering great support experiences
- Effective communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Qualification:
- Proven experience contributing to open-source projects, particularly in the database ecosystem (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB) or related technologies like Kafka, OpenSearch, or database migration tools.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
- Basic Experience to distributed systems or containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Helm, or Ansible.
- Contributions to open-source projects, technical blogs, or documentation related to databases or cloud-native technologies
- At least one of the Database Certifications, such as Oracle Certified Professional or Databases Administrator
- Exposure to one or more programming languages (PHP, Python, NodeJS) or a strong interest in developing coding skills.
Compensation Range:
- $75,200 - $94,000 / Shift hours - 2pm - 10pm MST
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7646
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
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We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The technical solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful.
The Partner Solution Architect (PSA) is a Datadog expert who will work closely with Datadog’s Director of Partner Solutions Architects, and is aligned to our Channels & Alliances business segment. The PSA is responsible for supporting a variety of technical initiatives and activities for our partners (for example: cloud migration, application modernization, DevOps transformation). They are accountable for the outcome of these initiatives, and frequently collaborate with both Datadog and Partner resources to drive success. The PSA is a trusted technical advisor for our Partner channel.
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:
- Ensure the successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources;
- Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to ensure direct alignment between Datadog and Partner technical teams;
- Collaborate internally to support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations and proofs of value; partner team enablement workshops; assessment, advice, and coaching on lead practices;
- Advocate on behalf of Partners’ technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues, e.g.) with Datadog internal teams and personnel, helping to bring those concerns to resolution;
- Analyze and understand Partner service offerings on a regular basis and provide recommendations to enhance the value of those services through greater or improved adoption of Datadog features and capabilities;
- Collaborate with Datadog’s product management, engineering and technical services teams to help identify and prioritize new features and capabilities;
- Continuously help curate and evolve lead/best practices for Datadog platform adoption and success.
Who You Are:
- Possess a solid technical grounding with hands-on experience of IT Development and/or Operations
- Has a demonstrable track-record and never-ending passion for learning; successful candidates for this position typically have 10-15 years of experience in a customer or partner facing technical role
- A self-starter, tech-savvy professional with solid business acumen; ability to articulate Datadog value from server room to boardroom;
- Confident presentation skills
- Desired hands-on experience in two or more of the following areas:
- Observability: Datadog, Splunk, AppD, New Relic or Dynatrace
- Public Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, or Alibaba
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry
- Dev/Scripting: Python, Javascript, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go
- Config Mgmt: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
- CI / CD: Jenkins, Gitlab
- Bonus Points:
- Previous experience working in a technical role for or supporting channel partners (Systems Integrators, Managed Services Providers, e.g.)
- Previous experience using Datadog and/or other cloud monitoring tools (APM,
- Infrastructure, Logs, Synthetics, NPM)
- Previous experience with root-cause-analysis, troubleshooting, debugging
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above 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 and Growth:
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Generous global benefits
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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.
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
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Datadog’s Implementation Services team helps customers implement and deploy Datadog quickly. Our team of architects leads the discovery, design, build, and launch of the Datadog platform to help customers accelerate time to value and get the most out of their investment. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for developing the technical roadmap for a customer’s implementation, and leading them through it every step of the way.
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:
- Design and guide execution of Datadog implementations, including gathering requirements, building technical architecture, and supporting deployment and launch
- Guide customer onboarding through co-development working sessions and assist when they run into roadblocks
- Write automation and design architecture for deployment templates
- Manage the operation of implementation projects
- Collaborate with other teams, including Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Sales to deliver an exceptional onboarding experience
Who You Are:
- Experience designing and delivering technical solutions for DevOps Monitoring or architecture systems
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and compute technologies (EC2, serverless, VMware, VMs, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with Config Management, IAC and CI/CD tools, including Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, Circle CI, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, etc…
- Experience programming/scripting with any of the following: Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, PHP, and .NET etc
- Background in security operations, including SOC management, SIEM tooling (e.g. Splunk Professional Services), and designing or supporting zero-trust networking architectures
- Successful track record with 5+ years experience as an Architect or Consultant in a professional services team
- Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites
- Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 30% of the time
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above 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 and Growth:
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Generous global benefits
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
#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.
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
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