Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

About the role

Staff Software Engineer - Frontend - New York City

Datadog’s Staff Engineers are our technical leaders operating at the forefront of technology, building solutions that take us through at least our next five years of growth. They do this in three major ways:

As individual contributors, they bring world-class technical abilities to deliver industry-leading systems in areas such as data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet-scale streaming.

As technical leaders, they bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackle design and architectural problems spanning the organization, charting the right course, and then leading delivery.

In both roles, they participate in the staff engineering community and help us learn from what the industry is doing and what we've built before, and so improving company-wide standards around software and systems engineering.

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:

- Use your expertise to design and deliver technology that will power the next generation of products

- Coach and develop engineers at various levels, from new university graduates to senior engineers with years of industry experience

- Leading redesigns of significant parts of the Datadog product and website

- Owning core customer experiences, including the first-time user experience.

Who You Are:

- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience

- 4+ years of technical leadership experience, including both effective communication of complex concepts and experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products

- Running a high volume of experimentation and iteration cycles (A/B testing).

- Strong UI/UX intuition, adept at working closely with product design and product management stakeholders to develop a shared vision and deliver on it

- You have led development of high-complexity, high-performance interactive browser applications, including architecture, interaction design, and optimization

- Ability to bring best practices from across the world of software engineering and adapt them to the frontend environment

- Expertise with React

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know 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 experience, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits & Growth:

- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)