Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era. Staff Engineers are technical leaders who design and deliver technology for the next generation of products, coach engineers, and lead redesigns of significant parts of the Datadog product and website.

• 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.

• 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

• 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