Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Feature Flags

About the role

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. 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.

What they're looking for

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• 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; you understand the difference between a demo and something that survives a migration
• Customer-facing experience, or strong motivation to build it; comfortable being in the room with customer engineers, understanding their constraints, and adapting your approach
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time to customer sites
• Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits & working conditions

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits
• Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
• The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: 192,000 - 240,000
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• The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:$192,000—$240,000 USD