This role pays more than
77%
of similar roles. Most pay
$173,012–$223,750
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$225k
versus about
$198k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Datadog
Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.
Datadog currently has
266 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$161,000–$205,000
across 138 roles with salary data.
Datadog for Startups - Forward Deployed Engineering Lead joins the Forward Deployed Engineering team to shape and scale the operating model, including engagement intake, sprint delivery, and success metrics. This role functions as a technical leader and program architect, responsible for building out a catalog of offerings such as observability quickstarts, custom integration development, LLM/AI observability accelerators, and CI/CD pipeline instrumentation. The candidate will manage and coach a team of engineers while translating field feedback into prioritized product briefs to inform the roadmap. Key requirements include expertise in cloud-native stacks like Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, microservices, and infrastructure-as-code. The role addresses complex observability challenges by providing technical guidance through deployment cycles, ensuring customers successfully navigate monitoring, APM, and logging platforms while translating technical decisions into business outcomes like adoption lift and reduced churn risk.
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