Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Feature Flags
Datadog · New York, New York, USA
Posted about 2 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 64 days Datadog's roles stay open a median of 83 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Datadog's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Datadog
- high 455 stale, 32 reposted of 455 open
- Hiring momentum
- 589 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-25
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Datadog's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Datadog.
About this role
As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer on the Feature Flags team, you will work directly with customers to implement feature flags, providing hands-on coding support from initial architecture through to full-scale migrations. Your role involves consulting on complex deployments, building prototypes in customer codebases, and driving migrations while collaborating with Sales and Engineering to ensure successful implementations.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Datadog as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Hands-on coding ability across the stack
- Experience with feature flagging, experimentation, or config management systems
- Comfortable working in unfamiliar codebases, languages, and frameworks
- Experience shipping production code
- Customer-facing experience or motivation to build it
What you get
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- Inclusive company culture and Community Guilds
- Access to Inclusion Talks
- Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Worth weighing
- No specific technology stack required, but strong fundamentals are necessary
- Role involves significant customer interaction, which may not suit all candidates
- Travel requirement of up to 20% may be a consideration for some candidates
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