Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer - Frontend on a feature team at Datadog, you'll be responsible for building an intuitive, responsive product. Your work will help thousands of customers monitor the health and performance of their systems, no matter the scale. In this capacity, you’ll use tools like React and TypeScript to help streamline the flow of data from platform to user, enable seamless pivots from one view to the next, and build a powerful yet easy-to-use platform.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to inform, refine, and 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 of talent, excellence of product, and exciting engineering challenges at scale.

Who You Are

• You have been designing and engineering UIs for several years.
• You’re a master of the JavaScript ecosystem and aware of the latest trends in frontend technologies.
• You know how to use design patterns to create simple and reusable components for complex UIs.
• You are familiar with data structures and algorithms, profiling, and optimization.
• You value code simplicity, performance, and details.

Benefits and Growth

• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space.
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility.
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our 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 opportunities may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

About Datadog

Datadog is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.