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Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Job in New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listing for: Datadog
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-15
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Front End Developer, Full Stack Developer, Senior Developer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 130000 - 300000 USD Yearly USD 130000.00 300000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

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 to 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 work on exciting scalability and performance challenges. Our users are also developers so you will feel close to the product and have an impact on the development world.

You will be part of a front-end community of 200+ passionate frontend engineers and you will be surrounded by experts. Join us to build the next generation of high-scale, data-powered features for our customers.

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.

What You’ll Do
  • Work closely with backend engineers, product managers and designers to inform/refine/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
Who You Are
  • You have been designing and engineering UIs for several years
  • You’re a master of the Java script ecosystem and you’re aware of the latest trends with 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
  • You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
  • You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
  • Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay.

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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and…

Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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