From $244K/yr
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 code with customers, not just advise them. You'll work hands-on inside customer codebases to unblock complex, high-stakes deployments, directly influencing deal velocity and customer success. Working closely with Sales, Solutions, and Engineering, you'll be the technical force that turns a signed contract into a live, adopted implementation. 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 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 Who You Are: 5 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 i