# Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Salary:** $130k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms, Profiling, Performance Optimization, Design Systems, Ai Coding Tools
**Posted:** 2026-08-28

> Senior frontend software engineer designing and delivering responsive, scalable interfaces for a data-intensive observability product. The role requires strong JavaScript ecosystem expertise, reusable UI design patterns, performance optimization skills, and practical experience with AI coding tools.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Collaborate with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to refine and validate design concepts.
- Break complex features into distributable engineering tasks and rollout plans.
- Design and deliver frontend features affecting thousands of users.
- Experiment with and advocate for new systems, design patterns, and tooling.
- Use and contribute to an in-house design system.
- Own meaningful parts of the service, improve performance, and address scalability limits.
- Participate in hackathons, frontend demos, and engineering community events.

## Requirements
- Several years of experience designing and engineering user interfaces.
- Strong mastery of the JavaScript ecosystem and current frontend technologies.
- Experience using design patterns to create simple, reusable components for complex user interfaces.
- Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, profiling, and optimization.
- Strong attention to code simplicity, performance, and detail.
- Experience using AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows, including validating, critiquing, and refining AI-generated output.

## Nice-to-haves
- Interest in advancing AI-enabled software engineering practices and products.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary: **$130,000–$300,000 USD**.
- New-hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
- Product training and continuous career development opportunities.
- Internal mobility, mentoring, and buddy programs.
- Global mental health benefit.
- Benefits may include healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health support, 401(k) with match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan.

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