Datadog
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Feature Flags
New York, New York, USA · Senior
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About the role
- You'll work hands-on inside customer codebases to unblock complex, high-stakes deployments, directly influencing deal velocity and customer success.
- Working closely with Sales, Solutions, and Engineering, you'll be the technical force that turns a signed contract into a live, adopted implementation.
- We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one.
Responsibilities
- Build prototype flag implementations directly in customer codebases to prove value and de-risk technical decisions early in the sales cycle
- Implement flags across diverse and advanced deployment modes (server-side, client-side, edge, mobile, streaming/real-time) tailored to each customer's stack
- Drive full flag migrations to completion, including legacy system cutover, efficiently and with minimal customer engineering burden
- Partner with Sales and Solutions to accelerate deal cycles by removing technical risk and uncertainty
- Customer-facing experience, or strong motivation to build it; comfortable being in the room with customer engineers, understanding their constraints, and adapting your approach
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with hands-on coding ability across the stack you're deployed into
- Experience with feature flagging, experimentation, or config management systems (internal or vendor)
- Comfortable dropping into unfamiliar codebases, languages, and frameworks quickly - no specific stack required, but strong fundamentals and fast ramp-up
- Experience shipping production code, not just prototypes
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time to customer sites
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Compensation
- 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.
- 192,000 - 240,000
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- 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.
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Company info
- As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer on the Feature Flags team, you'll partner directly with customers to accelerate their feature flag implementations, from initial architecture consulting through prototype builds to full-scale migrations.
- This role is for someone who wants to write code with customers, not just advise them.
- At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together.
- We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
- Serve as the hands-on technical partner for strategic customers implementing Datadog Feature Flags, from pre-sales technical validation through post-sales delivery
- Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.
- It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
- This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Visa & Work Authorization
- t 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
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