Senior Frontend Software Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer on a feature team at Datadog, you will be responsible for building an intuitive, responsive product that helps thousands of customers monitor their systems' health and performance at scale. You will utilize tools like React and Typescript to streamline data flow, enable seamless view transitions, and construct a powerful yet user-friendly platform. You'll tackle complex frontend challenges, focusing on scalability and performance with large datasets. As your users are also developers, you'll have a direct impact on the developer community. Join a front-end community of over 200 engineers and work alongside experts to build the next generation of high-scale, data-powered features. At Datadog, we value our office culture, which fosters relationships, creativity, and collaboration. We operate as a hybrid workplace to support work-life harmony.

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to inform/refine/validate design concepts.
• Break down complex features into distributable engineering tasks and rollout plans.
• Design and deliver features that have a direct impact on thousands of users.
• Experiment with and advocate for new systems, design patterns, and tooling.
• Participate in hackathons, sync with other Frontend engineers at monthly demos, and attend the yearly Front End summit.
• Use and contribute to a best-in-class in-house design system.
• Own meaningful parts of our service, improve performance, and address scalability limits.
• Work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that values diversity, product excellence, and exciting engineering challenges at scale.

Who You Are

• Experienced in designing and engineering UIs for several years.
• Master of the Javascript ecosystem and aware of the latest frontend technology trends.
• Proficient in using design patterns to create simple, reusable components for complex UIs.
• Familiar with data structures and algorithms, profiling, and optimization.
• Value code simplicity, performance, and attention to detail.
• Excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance coding, problem-solving, and building, or eager to learn.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in daily workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: Motivated to push the boundaries of AI in software engineering and contribute to AI-enabled products.

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. Datadog values diversity. We encourage individuals to apply even if they don't meet every qualification on day one, provided they are passionate about technology and eager to grow their skills.

Benefits and Growth

• Product training for in-depth understanding of our product and space.
• Continuous career development and internal mobility opportunities.
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for networking.
• Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds.
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
• Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health.
• Generous global benefits.

Note: Benefits and Growth may vary by country and employment nature. Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, potentially including variable compensation. Actual compensation depends on skills, qualifications, and experience. Benefits include healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health, 401(k) with match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. The estimated yearly salary range for this role is $130,000—$300,000 USD.

About Datadog

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business known for its growth and profitability. Our mission is to break down silos and solve cloud complexity by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog serves organizations of all sizes across various industries. We foster professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to drive continuous growth. Join us to solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate successes in a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog

Datadog is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in line with legal requirements. Please refer to our Candidate Legal Notices. Datadog strives to make its Careers Page accessible. For accommodation requests, please complete this form. This form is not for application status inquiries.

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Key skills/competency

• Frontend Development
• React
• Typescript
• Javascript
• UI Engineering
• Scalability
• Performance Optimization
• Data Structures
• Algorithms
• AI Tools in Software Engineering