Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Feature FlagsPosted today$46K–$183K

The opportunity

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 is for someone who wants to write…

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

  • 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
  • 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)