Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

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. As a Software Engineer - Frontend on a feature team, 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.

You will work on complex frontend challenges for thousands of customers with huge sets of data and tackle exciting scalability and performance challenges. Our users are also developers, so you will feel close to the product and have a real impact on the development world. You’ll be part of a front‑end community of 200+ passionate frontend engineers and surrounded by experts.

Join us to build the next generation of high‑scale, data‑powered features for our customers.

• 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 direct impact on thousands of users
• Experiment with and advocate for new systems, design patterns, and tooling
• Participate in hackathons, sync with other front‑end engineers at the monthly demos meeting and 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

• Have been designing and engineering UIs for several years
• Master the Java script ecosystem and stay aware of the latest trends with frontend technologies
• Know how to use design patterns to create simple and reusable components for complex UIs
• Familiar with data structures and algorithms, profiling and optimization
• Value code simplicity, performance and details
• Excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how

• 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

Salary: $130,000—$300,000 USD

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) 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.

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of 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, consistent with legal requirements.

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