Datadog

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Feature Flags

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Base Salary

$244k - $305k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with strategic customers on feature flag implementations from pre-sales technical validation through post-sales delivery.
  • Consult on flag architecture and implementation approaches for complex, multi-service, multi-platform, and high-scale environments.
  • Build prototype and production flag implementations directly in customer codebases.
  • Implement feature flags across server-side, client-side, edge, mobile, streaming, and real-time deployment modes.
  • Drive legacy-system migrations and cutovers to completion with minimal customer engineering burden.
  • Identify implementation patterns and provide feedback to Product and Engineering on product gaps, edge cases, and tooling.
  • Collaborate with Sales and Solutions to accelerate deal cycles by reducing technical risk.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience and hands-on coding ability across deployed customer stacks.
  • Experience with feature flagging, experimentation, or configuration management systems.
  • Ability to quickly work in unfamiliar codebases, languages, and frameworks without a prescribed technology stack.
  • Experience shipping production software rather than only prototypes.
  • Customer-facing experience or strong motivation to work directly with customer engineers.
  • Ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
  • Experience operating with ambiguity and owning outcomes across architecture, implementation, migrations, and customer success.

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package, with offerings varying by country and employment type.
  • New-hire stock equity in the form of RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous career development, career pathing, best-in-class onboarding, mentoring, and cross-departmental buddy programs.
  • New York City-based role with a hybrid working model and regular collaboration with Engineering.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Datadog

About Datadog

1,001-5,000 employees

Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.