The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
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; multi-service, multi-platform, high-scale deployments
Build prototype flag implementations directly in customer codebases to prove: value and de-risk technical decisions early in the sales cycle
Implement flags across diverse and advanced deployment modes (server-side,: client-side, edge, mobile, streaming/real-time) tailored to each customer's stack
Drive full flag migrations to completion, including legacy system cutover,: efficiently and with minimal customer engineering burden
Identify patterns across customer implementations and feed them back to: Product and Engineering to improve the core product and reduce future implementation time
What they're looking for
- Partner with Sales and Solutions to accelerate deal cycles by removing technical risk and uncertainty
- + 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
