Software Engineer - Web Browser SDK - Datadog

Datadog’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) gives our customers end-to-end visibility into the real-time activity and experience of individual users, on the web and on mobile. This includes application performance, error management, as well as analytics & user insights. RUM is massively growing: More customers, more features & more people! And this growth comes with challenges. 

By joining our Browser SDK team, you will be part of a multicultural team, remote-friendly. You will collaborate with the product, backend, and frontend UI teams. You will play an active role in building the library installed by our customers in their applications.

In order to maintain the trust we’ve built with our many customers, you will need to be comfortable building robust, very well architected and isolated code that works in very different environments and setups. We expect that you are completely familiar with the Web browser ecosystem and the specific security and privacy challenges that exist. Your SDK code must be safe and robust in this complex environment. In order to build trust with our customers, you need to be comfortable building robust, very well architected and isolated code that works all the time.

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: 

• Write new SDK modules and components, used across the world by our customers, having ownership and maintaining them
• Rely on your knowledge of the Web browser ecosystem and the specific security and privacy challenges that exist, actively follow innovations in the field
• Write code in the public eye, being the face of Datadog inside the community. Code is open source (link to github repo), You will need to review and sometimes be the primary author of documentation for the APIs and code that you produce.
• Work closely with with the product, backend, and frontend UI teams to deliver the best-in-class browser RUM product
• Help improve our engineering tooling and practices

Who You Are:

• You have significant experience in Javascript/Typescript
• You value code simplicity and performance
• You have strong experience with the browser APIs, and ecosystem. You are comfortable debugging complex issues in a variety of browsers.
• Having experience developing commercially shipped SDKs is a plus.
• You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that values diversity of talent, excellence of product, and exciting engineering challenges at scale

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. 

Benefits and Growth: 

• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility 
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking 
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health 
• Generous global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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