Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Datadog; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs/ESPP

Professional development

Inclusion Guilds

Inclusion Talks

Mental health benefits

Global benefits

Job summary

Datadog in New York City is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for frontend leadership. You will design and deliver scalable UI features, mentor engineers, and drive major redesigns of core product experiences.

You bring 10+ years of engineering, 4+ years of tech leadership, strong React expertise, and a track record of A/B testing and high‑complexity browser apps. This role is hybrid in NYC with competitive salary and equity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience, including coordinating across teams to ship products.
• Experience running a high volume of experimentation and iteration cycles (A/B testing).
• Strong UI/UX intuition, working with design/PM to deliver a shared vision.
• Led development of high‑complexity, high‑performance interactive browser applications, including architecture and optimization.
• Expertise with React.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver technology powering next generation products.
• Coach and develop engineers at various levels.
• Lead redesigns of significant parts of the Datadog product and website.
• Own core customer experiences, including the first‑time user experience.

Skills

UI/UX intuition

Frontend architecture

Leadership

A/B testing

Tools

React

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - Frontend - New York City

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 tackle design and architectural problems spanning the organization, charting the right course, and 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 improving company‑wide standards around software and systems engineering.

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

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: $138,000—$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:

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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