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About the Role
As a 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 involves writing code with customers and working hands-on inside their codebases to unblock complex deployments, directly influencing deal velocity and customer success. You will be the technical force turning signed contracts into live, adopted implementations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the hands-on technical partner for strategic customers implementing Datadog Feature Flags, from pre-sales technical validation through post-sales delivery
- Consult on flag architecture and implementation approach for complex environments
- Build prototype flag implementations directly in customer codebases to prove value and de-risk technical decisions
- Implement flags across diverse and advanced deployment modes tailored to each customer's stack
- Drive full flag migrations to completion, including legacy system cutover
- Identify patterns across customer implementations and feed them back to Product and Engineering
- Collaborate closely with Engineering on technical edge cases, product gaps, and implementation tooling
- Partner with Sales and Solutions to accelerate deal cycles by removing technical risk and uncertainty
Requirements
- 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with hands-on coding ability across the stack
- Experience with feature flagging, experimentation, or config management systems
- Comfortable dropping into unfamiliar codebases, languages, and frameworks quickly
- Experience shipping production code
- Customer-facing experience, or strong motivation to build it
- Skilled at simplifying complex technical tradeoffs for both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
- Motivated by outcomes — deal velocity, successful migrations, and customer trust
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity, moving between architecture conversations and hands-on implementation in the same week
Skills
- Feature flagging
- Experimentation
- Config management systems
- Coding
- Software engineering
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5 years of professional software engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- $244,000—$305,000 USD
Benefits
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Employee-focused best in class onboarding
- Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Parental planning
- Mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
About the Company
- 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.
- Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
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