***Active TS clearance required; must be eligible for CI Polygraph. Applicants without an active TS clearance will not be considered.. ***

North Point Technology is looking for a TS Cleared Software Engineer to support a critical mission.  The program delivers cutting-edge intelligence and geospatial data management applications and services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).   The Program’s focus is on meeting the current mission needs of our customer, but also pioneering future automation solutions for the NGA based on agency directives. We are developing innovative solutions for geospatial analysis and production capabilities that will revolutionize the way intelligence is distributed to stakeholders.  

In this role, you will be part of a software development Scrum team assisting with software requirements verification, software development and operational support. The successful candidate will have experience and/or knowledge of SCRUM processes and System Requirements verification (such as Jira, Confluence

Required Qualifications:

• Frontend web development using modern techniques and frameworks (e.g., HTML5, CSS3, CSS frameworks like LESS and SASS, Responsive Design, Bourbon, Twitter Bootstrap)
• JavaScript development using modern standards, including strict mode compliance, modularization techniques and tools, and frameworks and libraries (e.g., jQuery, MV* frameworks such as Backbone.js and Ember.js, D3)
• Consuming RESTful APIs
• Using and working in team environments that use agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Lean)
• Use of version control systems, specifically Git and GitHub
• Ensuring Section 508 Compliance
• Quickly researching and learning new programming tools and techniques
• Using and working with open-source solutions and community
• Creating web layouts from static images
• Creating views and templates in full-stack frameworks like Rails, Express, or Django

Preferred Qualifications:

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Continuous Integration and Deployment Tools: Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker
• Agile SW development methodologies

The Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) team acts as a technical multiplier across Datadog. PSAs are domain experts who partner with Field teams on complex customer use cases across pre- and post-sales engagements and scale their impact by producing reusable collateral, including reference architectures, technical guides, and enablement assets. By feeding real-world customer insights back to Datadog Product teams, PSAs help influence product roadmaps while accelerating adoption, usage, and long-term customer success.

The Digital Experience & Experimentation family of products includes Product Analytics, Feature Flags, Experimentation, and Session Replay and is a fast-growing segment at Datadog and addresses a distinct buyer, product managers, digital experience teams, and product engineers building and optimizing customer-facing applications. As a Product Solutions Architect, you will partner closely with Datadog customers and the Product team to design architectures, implement best practices, and drive adoption of this digital experience product family across customer environments.

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:

• Serve as an in-house subject matter expert for the Datadog Product Analytics, Feature Flags, Experimentation, and Session Replay and related products.
• Partner with field teams to offer guidance on architecture choices, SDK instrumentation, data collection, and best practices to large Enterprise customers as they adopt the product family.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Product Management by delivering actionable feedback informed by real-world field experience.
• Create high-impact technical collateral, including reference architectures, technical guides, cookbooks, and documentation to enable Field teams and the broader customer community.
• Build world class training material, solutions briefs, blogs, and documentation to the wider Datadog field technical teams over the latest product features and capabilities.
• Collaborate with other teams at Datadog including Marketing, Sales, Community, Documentation, and Evangelism to ensure the success of the Product Analytics product family.
• Build proofs of concept and small-scale deployments to validate solutions and reproduce real-world customer environments.
• Collaborate on defining the technical GTM motion for Feature Flags and Experimentation, including competitive positioning against competitors to enable Sales Engineers globally to run these conversations independently.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience solving complex problems for customers and a strong knowledge of building applications, specifically using product analytics, feature flagging, or digital experience tooling.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with product analytics platforms and optimizing them for Enterprise level production usage (e.g. Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Heap, Contentsquare, FullStory, PostHog).
• Fluent in the digital experience and product analytics market domain, competition, technological shifts, and customer needs related to feature flag management, experimentation, and session replay.
• In-depth knowledge or experience with leveraging feature flag and experimentation tools (LaunchDarkly, Eppo, Split, Optimizely, etc.) and session replay platforms (FullStory, Contentsquare, Microsoft Clarity, etc.).
• Someone who can analyze Codebase and understands CI/CD, branch strategies and how that can influence Feature Flags.
• Experience with commonly used web and mobile languages and frameworks such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Python, iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin, and file formats such as JSON and YAML.
• You are comfortable operating in rapidly evolving, ambiguous technical domains.
• You build deep context across teams and translate it into reusable, scalable solutions.
• You take ownership from problem definition through implementation and measurable outcomes.
• You are highly detail-oriented, particularly when working on architectures and customer-facing technical assets
• You bring strong listening and consultative skills and are experienced supporting customers in high-pressure, complex situations.
• Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites.
• Able to travel via auto, train, or air up to 40% of the time.

Bonus Points:

• Successful track record with 5+ years experience working as a Growth Engineering 
• Experience using Datadog and/or other observability tools with Product Analytics, or Feature Flags.
• Have proven experience deploying observability or analytics instrumentation in production environments at scale.
• Background in experimentation program design, defining success metrics, guard rails, and statistical significance frameworks for A/B tests.
• Experience with privacy-by-design and data governance for session replay, including PII masking, consent management, and data residency requirements in regulated industries.
• Experience collaborating with open source projects and active engagement within associated communities.

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: 

• Best-in-breed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

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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