Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Staff Software Engineer - Frontend - New York City

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

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)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

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.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$244,000—$305,000 USD

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:

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