About the role
This role sits at the rare intersection of sales, execution, program design, and hands-on engineering leadership. You are part field technical leader, part program architect, and part cross-functional connector. You will help determine what the FDE motion looks like at Datadog, contribute to its playbook, and push the boundaries of what the team can deliver.
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What they’re looking for
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- Have 8+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, software engineering, or related technical fields, including at least 3 years in a customer-facing technical role.
- Have 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Have contributed to or scaled a technical program, practice, or new function within a high-growth technology company, with a track record of influencing product roadmaps through structured field feedback.
- Bring deep familiarity with modern cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code) and hands-on experience with observability, monitoring, APM, or logging platforms; Datadog experience is a strong plus.
- Communicate exceptionally across audiences from engineering leads and CTOs to VP-level executives, bring strong commercial instinct for how technical decisions translate to ARR, churn risk, and expansion, navigate large matrixed organizations without direct authority, and are comfortable with significant travel to embed with customers.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, thrive in evolving environments, demonstrate strong business acumen, navigate matrixed organizations without direct authority, and are willing to travel to support customer engagements.
Conditions
- Hire, onboard, and develop full-time FDEs, manage a rotating cohort of SWE and TSE secondments, build technical assessment frameworks suited to the customer-embedded nature of the role, and coach the team on engagement, scoping, stakeholder communication, and Datadog platform depth.
How they work
- At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table.
- We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
- #LI-Hybrid Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
Eligibility
To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. 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.
How to apply
- Help drive lightweight engineering sprints to convert recurring customer needs into reusable assets that scale across the FDE portfolio.
- If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your experience, we encourage you to apply.
- Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Benefits & working conditions
- Shape and scale a rapidly growing strategic function with significant influence on its operating model and future direction.
- Partner directly with leadership across Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Business Development.
- Influence customer outcomes while helping inform Datadog's product roadmap through structured field feedback.
- Work with a diverse portfolio of technically sophisticated organizations solving complex observability challenges.
- Develop expertise across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, AI observability, deployment strategy, and customer-facing technical leadership.
- Gain visibility through participation in executive reviews, planning cycles, and cross-functional initiatives across the business.
- Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
- To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. 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.
- #LI-Hybrid
- The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
- $200,000—$250,000 USD
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