Datadog · 1 week ago
Staff Statistics Engineer - Feature Flagging and Experimentation
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$234K/yr - $300K/yrDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and cloud migration. They are seeking a Stats Engineering leader to build two new products, Feature Flags and Experiments, which will help teams ship features quickly and make data-driven decisions through a robust experimentation engine.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Architect and implement the world-class experimentation engine behind Datadog Experiments, supporting methods like sequential testing, CUPED, variance reduction, and more
Bring rigor to experiment analysis at scale (e.g. through diagnostics, guardrails for safe shipping)
Translate complex statistical methods into robust, production-ready systems
Work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to influence the direction of the product, on both a day-to-day and the big picture vision
Educate engineers, leaders at Datadog, and our largest customers on statistical best practices, experiment design, and practical inference
Help define standards and frameworks to make experimentation at Datadog trustworthy by default and fast by design
Qualification
Required
You hold a PhD or equivalent experience in Statistics, Computer Science, Econometrics, or a related field
You have deep expertise in statistics, causal inference, or experimentation methods
You have a track record of shipping production-grade software that solves real user problems
You understand the tradeoffs between statistical elegance and engineering complexity, and you know how to strategically make bets
You have strong software engineering fundamentals and can write clean, maintainable code
You can lead cross-functionally – with Engineering, Product, Design, and business teams
You're excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
Preferred
You've built or worked on experimentation platforms at scale
Benefits
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
A 401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
A discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
Founded in 2010
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthIndex VenturesOpenView
2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
Leadership Team
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder, CEO
Alexis Le-Quoc
Co-founder & CTO
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