Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Feature Flags
DatadogCloud Monitoring company
New York, United States$244,000 - $305,000 USDLead
Index Ventures
RTP Global
ICONIQ Capital
Amplify Partners
OpenView
Contour Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Hands-on technical partner for customers implementing Datadog Feature Flags.
- •As a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Feature Flags team, you'll partner directly with customers to accelerate their feature flag implementations.
- •You'll work hands-on inside customer codebases to unblock complex deployments, directly influencing deal velocity and customer success.
- •Key Responsibilities Serve as the hands-on technical partner for strategic customers implementing Datadog Feature Flags.
- •Consult on flag architecture and implementation approach for complex environments.
- •Build prototype flag implementations directly in customer codebases.
- •Implement flags across diverse deployment modes tailored to each customer's stack.
- •Drive full flag migrations to completion.
- •Requirements 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with hands-on coding ability.
- •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.
Required skills
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoBashReactNode.jsAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinuxREST API
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
Stock equity, Employee stock purchase plan, Health insurance, Dental insurance, Parental planning, Mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, Paid time off, Fitness reimbursements
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoBashReactNode.jsAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinuxREST API
