# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Feature Flags at Datadog

- Company: Datadog
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: New York, New York, USA
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Skills: Product Management
- Apply: https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8144946/?gh_jid=8144946

## Description

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 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.
 At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. 
 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 cu

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