Join Datadog as a Staff Software Engineer to lead frontend development and mentor engineers in a hybrid work environment.
Posted by employer 3 weeks ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 2 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design and deliver technology for new products
- Coach and develop engineers
- Lead redesigns of product and website
- Own core customer experiences
Must have
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience
- Strong UI/UX intuition
- Expertise with React
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer - Frontend at Datadog is responsible for designing and delivering advanced technology solutions that enhance user experiences across the company's products. The position requires expertise in React and a strong background in UI/UX design, along with a proven track record in technical leadership and cross-team collaboration. Ideal candidates will have over a decade of engineering experience, including significant involvement in high-complexity interactive applications. Datadog fosters a collaborative office culture and values diverse backgrounds, encouraging growth and learning within its engineering community.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 10, 2026. Last confirmed on Datadog's careers page October 10, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Frontend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 93% of 15 comparable staff frontend roles in United States that list React we track (median $198,200 across 11 companies). See React salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer - Frontend role remote?
- It's hybrid — Datadog expects some on-site time in New York, New York, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Datadog lists $244,000–$305,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer - Frontend role.
- Where is the role based?
- Datadog is hiring for this position in New York, New York, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: React.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Datadog targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer - Frontend role at Datadog.
From the original posting
Staff Software Engineer - Frontend - New York City
Datadog’s Staff Engineers are our technical leaders operating at the forefront of technology, building solutions that take us through at least our next five years of growth. They do this in three major ways:
As individual contributors, they bring world-class technical abilities to deliver industry-leading systems in areas such as data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet-scale streaming.
As technical leaders, they bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackle design and architectural problems spanning the organization, charting the right course, and then leading delivery.
In both roles, they participate in the staff engineering community and help us learn from what the industry is doing and what we've built before, and so improving company-wide standards around software and systems engineering.
What You’ll Do:
- Use your expertise to design and deliver technology that will power the next generation of products
- Coach and develop engineers at various levels, from new university graduates to senior engineers with years of industry experience
- Leading redesigns of significant parts of the Datadog product and website
- Owning core customer experiences, including the first-time user experience.
Who You Are:
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience, including both effective communication of complex concepts and experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
- Running a high volume of experimentation and iteration cycles (A/B testing).
- Strong UI/UX intuition, adept at working closely with product design and product management stakeholders to develop a shared vision and deliver on it
- You have led development of high-complexity, high-performance interactive browser applications, including architecture, interaction design, and optimization
- Ability to bring best practices from across the world of software engineering and adapt them to the frontend environment
- Expertise with React
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your experience, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits & Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog:
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