Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

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.

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 

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your experience, we encourage you to apply.