Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Datadog; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Employee stock purchase plan

401(k) with match

Healthcare

Mental health benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Software Engineer - Frontend to build intuitive, data-rich UI components for a high-scale observability platform. You will work with React and Typescript to streamline data flow, create reusable UI patterns, and deliver features used by thousands of customers and developers.

You'll join a large frontend community and contribute to a best-in-class design system while collaborating with backend engineers, product managers, and designers in a hybrid New York team.

Qualifications

• Design and engineer UIs with a focus on performance and maintainability.
• Strong knowledge of the JavaScript ecosystem and modern frontend patterns.
• Ability to create simple, reusable components for complex UIs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with backend, product, and design to refine concepts.
• Break down features into engineering tasks and rollout plans.
• Build features affecting thousands of users with large data sets.
• Experiment with new systems, patterns, and tooling.
• Participate in hackathons and frontend community activities.
• Own performance improvements and scalability of frontend services.

Skills

JavaScript

React

TypeScript

Frontend UI

Performance

Tools

AI coding tools

Design system

Job description

As a Software Engineer - Frontend on a feature team, you'll be responsible for building an intuitive, responsive product. Your work will help thousands of customers to monitor the health and performance of their systems, no matter the scale. In this capacity, you’ll use tools like React and Typescript to help streamline the flow of data from platform to user, enable seamless pivots from one view to the next, and build a powerful yet easy-to-use platform.

You will work on complex frontend challenges for thousands of customers with huge sets of data and work on exciting scalability and performance challenges. Our users are also developers so you will feel close to the product and have an impact on the development world.

You will be part of a front-end community of 200+ passionate frontend engineers and you will be surrounded by experts. Join us to build the next generation of high-scale, data-powered features for our customers.

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

• Work closely with backend engineers, product managers and designers to inform/refine/validate design concepts
• Break down complex features into distributable engineering tasks and rollout plans
• Design and deliver features that have direct impact on thousands of users
• Experiment with and advocate for new systems, design patterns, and tooling
• Participate in hackathons, sync with other Front end engineers at the monthly demos meeting and yearly Front End summit
• Use and contribute to a best-in-class in-house design system
• Own meaningful parts of our service, improve performance and address scalability limits
• Work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that values diversity of talent, excellence of product, and exciting engineering challenges at scale

Who You Are

• You have been designing and engineering UIs for several years
• You’re a master of the Javascript ecosystem and you’re aware of the latest trends with frontend technologies
• You know how to use design patterns to create simple and reusable components for complex UIs
• You are familiar with data structures and algorithms, profiling and optimization
• You value code simplicity, performance and details
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay.

Benefits and Growth

• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health
• Generous global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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:

$130,000—$300,000 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.

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