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Python (nice) Training

What this posting asks for

Level: Senior — The title says "Senior".

Main responsibilities

• Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
• Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
• Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
• Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic
• With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Competencies an interviewer will look for

• Technical skill Core
  In the posting: “Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.” · “You value code simplicity and performance” · “You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale”
  Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
• Problem solving Core
  In the posting: “Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.” · “Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service” · “Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns”
  Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix.
• Planning and organisation Core
  In the posting: “With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next” · “New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan” · “In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental…”
  Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
• Data and analysis Core
  In the posting: “We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thou…” · “You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before” · “You have a strong background in statistics”
  Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
• Customer focus Core
  In the posting: “You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers” · “It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.”
  Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
• Leadership and mentoring Supporting
  In the posting: “Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking”
  Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.
• Attention to detail and quality Supporting
  In the posting: “You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs”
  Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.

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