Observability Engineer (Datadog + DevOps)

Location: Vilnius

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

As an Observability Engineer you’ll play a critical role in building, scaling, and embedding enterprise‑grade observability across our technology landscape, enabling reliable, secure, and high‑performing services.
 

You’ll thrive in this position if you’re technically hands‑on, collaborative, and proactive, with a strong DevOps mindset and a passion for cloud platforms, telemetry, and operational excellence in a fast‑paced, global environment.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously evolve our Datadog observability platform across logs, metrics, traces, APM, RUM, monitoring, and security use cases.
• Define and implement reusable observability standards for dashboards, alerting, and logging across engineering and business domains.
• Embed observability into cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring telemetry quality and automation by design.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, security, and operations teams to improve incident detection, service reliability, and time to resolution.
• Enable self‑service observability through documentation, dashboards, reporting, and executive‑level visibility.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands‑on experience with Datadog across logs, metrics, APM, dashboards, and monitors.
• Solid understanding of observability principles, including telemetry types, SLOs, distributed tracing, and reliability metrics.
• Proficiency in Python for automation, instrumentation, and integrations.
• Practical experience with AWS and Azure monitoring services and their integration into observability platforms.
• Experience with DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform preferred).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating observability platforms at scale in complex or high‑volume environments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container‑based observability patterns.
• Background in SRE, production operations, or performance engineering.

This position will be located in Vilnius, Lithuania and offers the opportunity for a hybrid work environment at least 3 days a week in-office, subject to change, providing flexibility and accessibility for qualified candidates.
 

Come as You Are

Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and identities. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives, experiences, and identities are valued and celebrated. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation throughout the hiring process. To request accommodation, contact us directly.
 

Benefits & Rewards

We offer a competitive, well-rounded rewards package that supports you and your family - inside and outside work.

The base pay range for this role is 5100 – 5600 EUR gross, monthly. Actual pay depends on your skills, experience, education, and location. In addition to base pay, we offer short-term incentives (bonus or commission) and long-term incentives (equity), where applicable, as well as the following benefits:

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan offering discounted company shares
• Pension plan with Nasdaq contribution
• 6 additional days off per year
• Work from (almost) anywhere – up to 20 days/year
• Paid time off to volunteer
• Health insurance
• Free gym, yoga & pilates classes and discounted in-office massages
• 24/7 mental health support for you and your family
• Global mentoring program
• Unlimited access to e-learning platforms
• Hybrid work setup
• Modern and comfortable work environment with fresh fruit, snacks, and weekly Fika breaks

For more information, visit Nasdaq Benefits & Rewards Career Page.
 

Individuals applying for or occupying this position must have no previous unspent convictions for criminal offences under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania, with the exception of offences solely related to minor road traffic violations.

Come as You Are

Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.