# Staff Product Designer, Modern Compute

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $204k – $255k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Prototyping, Kubernetes, Containers, autoscaling, GitOps, yaml, SaaS, ai-assisted workflows
**Posted:** 2026-07-31

> Lead end-to-end product design for Datadog's Modern Compute and Containers Autoscaling products. Design clear, trustworthy experiences that simplify complex infrastructure decisions for engineers while maintaining expert-level detail and control. Requires 10+ years designing complex technical products at a Staff level.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Lead end-to-end product design for Modern Compute, initially focused on our Autoscaling product.
- Help define the product direction for an area that is still evolving, from early framing and exploration through detailed design and delivery.
- Design clear, trustworthy experiences for engineers making high-stakes decisions about infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost.
- Simplify complex technical concepts without removing the detail and control expert users need.
- Work closely with product and engineering leaders to identify the right problems, make decisions clearer, and connect work across multiple teams.
- Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, including complex states, data-heavy workflows, and edge cases.
- Create reusable patterns that improve consistency across Modern Compute and the broader Datadog product.
- Mentor other designers through critique, feedback, and hands-on partnership.
- Design and build realistic prototypes in code using coding agents, while applying good judgment about when other tools or levels of fidelity are more appropriate.

## Who you are

- 10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products, including experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope.
- Exceptional interaction and visual design craft, particularly in dense, technical, or data-heavy experiences.
- Led ambiguous product work where the direction was not already defined and your involvement changed the outcome.
- Can simplify complex systems for expert users without watering down how those systems work.
- Comfortable working closely with product managers and engineers throughout the product development process.
- Communicate complex ideas clearly and can build confidence in a direction across design, product, engineering, and senior leadership.
- Think beyond an individual feature and can create systems or patterns that work across products and teams.
- Balance long-term product direction with hands-on execution and attention to detail.
- Actively mentor other designers and help improve the quality of work around you.
- Can design and build code-based prototypes using AI and coding agents, or have demonstrated the ability to quickly develop that capability.

## Bonus points

- Experience designing infrastructure, observability, cloud, or developer tools.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, autoscaling, GitOps, YAML, or related infrastructure workflows.
- Experience designing products for SREs, platform engineers, or application developers.
- Experience working across a multi-product SaaS platform.
- Experience creating design patterns that were adopted by multiple teams.

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