Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Datadog

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Work type: Remote
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $138,000–$305,000 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 256 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $172,000–$240,000 across 129 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

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As a Staff Software Engineer - Frontend, you will join the engineering team to serve as a technical leader and individual contributor focused on building next-generation products. You will be responsible for designing and delivering high-performance interactive browser applications, leading significant redesigns of the product and website, and owning core customer experiences like first-time user journeys. Your daily work involves coaching engineers at various levels, coordinating across teams to ship critical products, and running a high volume of experimentation cycles through A/B testing. You will utilize your expertise in React and strong UI/UX intuition to collaborate with design and product management stakeholders. The role addresses complex technical challenges in data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet-scale streaming while establishing company-wide standards for software and systems engineering within the frontend environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $214856 from 218 postings across 44 companies.

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Skills

React UI/UX A/B Testing Data Visualization Interactive Browser Applications

What you'll do

Design and deliver core technologies to power the next generation of products.
Lead the redesign of significant portions of the company's product and website.
Own critical customer experiences, including the first-time user experience.
Coach and develop engineers across all levels of seniority.
Manage high volumes of experimentation and iteration cycles through A/B testing.
Architect and optimize high-performance, complex interactive browser applications using React.
Establish company-wide standards for software and systems engineering based on industry best practices.

What we're looking for

10+ years of relevant engineering experience.
4+ years of technical leadership experience including communication of complex concepts and cross-team coordination.
Expertise with React.
Experience leading development of high-complexity, high-performance interactive browser applications including architecture and optimization.
Experience running a high volume of experimentation and iteration cycles such as A/B testing.
Strong UI/UX intuition and ability to work closely with product design and management stakeholders.
Ability to bring best practices from the software engineering world and adapt them to the frontend environment.

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