Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Datadog · New York, New York, USA · Engineering

Posted 2026-09-15

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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

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.

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

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