Staff Product Designer, Modern Compute

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Datadog is seeking a Staff Product Designer for Modern Compute in New York City, full time onsite, with an initial focus on Containers Autoscaling. You will lead end-to-end design, from problem framing through delivery, shaping a coherent product experience for engineers navigating reliability, performance and cost in dense technical environments. The ideal candidate has 10+ years designing complex web products at a staff level, outstanding interaction and visual craft, and a track record turning ambiguity into clear, scalable systems. You will mentor others, create reusable design patterns, and prototype in code when appropriate. To apply, highlight your experience with data heavy workflows, cross team impact, collaboration with PMs and engineers, and any Kubernetes, containers, YAML, or GitOps work.

The opportunity

Datadog’s Infrastructure products help engineers understand and operate the systems their applications depend on. Our customers work in complex environments like Kubernetes and serverless, where infrastructure changes constantly, information is dense, and decisions about reliability, performance, and cost are closely connected.

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join Modern Compute, with an initial focus on Containers Autoscaling. Autoscaling helps engineering teams make better decisions about how their applications and infrastructure use resources. Designing these experiences requires making deeply technical systems understandable, helping customers act with confidence, and fitting into the tools and workflows they already use.

The team is rethinking how workload and cluster autoscaling come together as a more coherent product experience. This includes how customers get started, understand recommendations, evaluate value, and safely apply changes across their environments. The work also connects to other parts of Datadog, including observability, Cloud Cost Management, permissions, and AI-assisted workflows.

As a Staff Product Designer, you will help define that direction and lead the work from early problem framing through shipped product. You will partner closely with product and engineering, bring a high level of interaction and visual craft to complex workflows, and help raise the quality of design across Modern Compute.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture, the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to help our Datadogs find a work-life rhythm that works for them.

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

• You have 10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products, including experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope.
• You bring exceptional interaction and visual design craft, particularly in dense, technical, or data-heavy experiences.
• You have led ambiguous product work where the direction was not already defined and your involvement changed the outcome.
• You can simplify complex systems for expert users without watering down how those systems work.
• You are comfortable working closely with product managers and engineers throughout the product development process.
• You communicate complex ideas clearly and can build confidence in a direction across design, product, engineering, and senior leadership.
• You think beyond an individual feature and can create systems or patterns that work across products and teams.
• You balance long-term product direction with hands-on execution and attention to detail.
• You actively mentor other designers and help improve the quality of work around you.
• 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.

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

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture and the opportunity to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive 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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