Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

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 tackling design and architectural problems spanning the organization, charting the right course, 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 improve company wide standards around software and systems engineering.

Examples of projects you might take on as a staff engineer include designing and implementing a major improvement to a system or tool that many application engineering teams depend on, developing a new Datadog product line from initial outline to public launch (and beyond), or breaking down a complex UX problem, solving the fundamental workflows, and polishing your solution until it feels totally intuitive.

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.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees 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


• Take cross-team decisions that will influence the Datadog frontend community at large


• Lead through example and excellence, helping the people around you grow


• Improve processes on your team, and across the whole of frontend engineering

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


• 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


• Knowledge of React and TypeScript

Benefits and Growth:

• High income earning opportunities based on individual performance


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


• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing


• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking


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


• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions


• Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+


• Competitive global benefits


• Giving programs



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