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Salary: USD 138,000 - 305,000 / annual
Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Frontend to join their New York office in a hybrid capacity. This is a senior technical leadership role where you will operate at the forefront of technology, building solutions that power Datadog's next five years of growth.
You will serve as both a world-class individual contributor and a technical leader. As an IC, you will deliver industry-leading systems in areas such as data visualization and high-performance interactive browser applications. As a technical leader, you will bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackle design and architectural problems spanning the organization, chart the right course, and lead delivery.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and delivering technology that powers the next generation of Datadog products
- Coaching and developing engineers at various levels, from new 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 first-time user experience
- Running high-volume experimentation and iteration cycles (A/B testing)
- Working closely with product design and product management stakeholders to develop shared vision and deliver on it
- Participating in the staff engineering community to improve company-wide standards around software and systems engineering
Datadog values office culture and collaboration while operating as a hybrid workplace to support work-life harmony.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience, including effective communication of complex concepts and experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
- Demonstrated expertise leading development of high-complexity, high-performance interactive browser applications, including architecture, interaction design, and optimization
- Strong UI/UX intuition and ability to work closely with design and product stakeholders
- Expertise with React
- Ability to bring best practices from across software engineering and adapt them to the frontend environment
- Experience running high-volume experimentation and iteration cycles (A/B testing)
Datadog notes that not all candidates will meet every qualification on day one and encourages passionate technologists to apply.
