Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Posted 7 Days Ago
New York, NY
Hybrid
234K-300K Annually
1-3 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software • Cybersecurity
We are building the monitoring and security platform for developers, IT ops teams and business users in the cloud age.
The Role
The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of data observability frontends, drive high-priority projects, mentor engineers, and focus on enhancing user experience and platform resilience while promoting growth in revenue.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to help us drive execution, build delightful experiences, and support and grow the engineers across our Data Observability ( Data Streams Monitoring and Data Jobs Monitoring ) product engineering teams.
Data Observability is building tools for data teams of all sizes to visualize, monitor, and understand their critical data pipeline, jobs, and datasets. We're a fast moving organization that operates as a startup within Datadog. We build impactful features quickly with customers in a tight feedback loop while keeping an eye on reliability, scaling, and future customer needs.
As a Staff Engineer, you will drive and collaborate on projects both inside and outside the product group. You will contribute to and make key technical and product decisions across the teams while elevating the engineering excellence of the other team members.
At Datadog, we value our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You'll Do:

  • Encourage and drive growth in the top line revenue for the product area, helping to maintain over 10% growth each quarter.
  • Go 0 to 1 on the concept of data platform health, showing customers the most impactful places to make optimizations
  • Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform's value, resilience, scalability, and user experience across Data Observability product frontends.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and grow engineers across the product area.
  • Lead and guide other engineers through implementation decisions, finding the highest valuable quickly and iterating to a delightful experience
  • Impact the direction of products at Datadog working closely with our Data Visualization platform group


Who You Are:

  • You have built a data intensive frontend product from the ground up and helped it scale as it encountered the consequences of your own design trade offs and product decisions as they age
  • You tirelessly focus on customer needs, always putting the user first when considering technical architecture and product timelines
  • You have a strong ownership mentality, doing what's needed and critical for the business and users at any given time
  • You are find and surface architectural and implementation issues early before they slow down team execution
  • You enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers to become our next set of leaders.


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:
$234,000 - $300,000 USD
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. 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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HQ: New York, NY
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Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.

Why Work With Us

At Datadog, we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems, innovate pragmatically, and grow together. We promote from within, provide mentorship and opportunities for career development, and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.

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