2 months ago
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
About Datadog
Datadog builds a SaaS observability and security platform that monitors infrastructure, applications, logs, and services for engineering and DevOps teams. Its products include infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, real user monitoring, and cloud security, sold via subscriptions and used across cloud-native and hybrid environments. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York City, Datadog is a public company trading on NASDAQ under the ticker DDOG.