Job description
Datadog’s Infrastructure products—spanning Containers, Serverless, Networking, and more—help engineers understand and operate the systems their applications depend on. Our users work in complex, fast-changing environments like Kubernetes and serverless, where workloads shift constantly, telemetry is dense, and time-to-insight can make or break reliability.
Today, these products are powerful but often feel disconnected. We see a huge opportunity to bring them together into a cohesive, guided experience that tells a clear story: what’s happening, why it matters, and what to do next. This means making invisible infrastructure feel visible and actionable—whether someone’s debugging a workload in real time or optimizing performance at scale.
As a Staff Product Designer in Infrastructure, you’ll be a strategic partner to design, engineering, and product leadership. You’ll shape cross-product workflows, improve day-to-day usability, and create design patterns that scale. Working closely with PM and Engineering, you’ll ensure Infra is not just functional but intuitive, discoverable, and trusted by our most technical users.
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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead high-impact design initiatives across Containers, Serverless, Networking, and other Infra areas to create a unified, guided experience.
- Shape the long-term UX vision for Infra, ensuring customers can quickly identify anomalies, understand their impact, and move seamlessly to investigation and resolution.
- Identify and prioritize opportunities to create more integrated and intuitive cross-product experiences.
- Partner with PM and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps and drive cohesive multi-product user experiences.
- Elevate design craft by improving fragmented or legacy patterns, unifying shared Infra surfaces, and setting a high execution bar.
- Mentor and support designers in Infra, sharing frameworks, critiques, and best practices that raise quality and velocity.
- Represent design in strategy and planning, ensuring UX vision is embedded in OKRs, roadmaps, and cross-team priorities.
- Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, moving fluidly between long-term direction and delivering impactful iterations in mature products.
Who You Are:
- Staff-level designer with 10+ years of experience crafting complex, web-based products.
- Proven ability to tell compelling stories that advocate for users, build alignment, and articulate a clear design vision.
- Comfortable working across deeply technical domains and multi-product ecosystems.
- Natural collaborator and facilitator, skilled at navigating cross-functional dynamics with senior stakeholders.
- Experienced in creating and scaling design patterns across an organization.
- Skilled in balancing strategy, research, interaction design, and visual design to deliver elevated solutions.
- Successful track record leading 0→1 initiatives as well as scaling and iterating mature products.
- Strong at giving and receiving feedback, and fostering continuous improvement for yourself and your team.
- Actively mentors and guides other designers, raising the quality bar across the team.
- Deeply fluent in modern design tools like Figma, and continuously exploring new ways—including AI—to boost efficiency and prototyping speed.
Bonus Points:
- Experience designing for infrastructure, observability, or developer tools.
- Familiarity with containerized environments, Kubernetes, or serverless architectures.
- Experience in high-growth SaaS or B2B environments, particularly those supporting technical users.
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, ability 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.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$195,000—$255,000 USD
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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