Datadog Forward Deployed Engineer jobs

Pay and benefits

Median posted base pay at Datadog is $225k, with a median posted range of $200k–$250k.

Base salary only, from 1 US post that state a range; equity and bonus are not included. FDE salary across all companies →

Open roles (1)

• Forward Deployed Engineering Manager - Datadog for StartupsNew York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA · posted 24 Jun 2026

Questions about FDE roles at Datadog

Does Datadog hire remote FDEs?

None of the 1 open FDE role FDE Times tracks there is listed as remote.

What does an FDE at Datadog earn?

The US job posts that state a range put base pay for FDE roles at Datadog at $200k–$250k (median range across 1 post). Equity and bonus are not included.

Where does Datadog hire FDEs?

Open FDE roles at Datadog are listed in New York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA.

FDE Times on Datadog

• Getting into a customer's AWS with a cross-account role: trust policies, ExternalId and fixing AccessDenied
• Datadog for FDEs: tracing a slow request to the right log line on a customer's system
• FDE hiring this week: Open FDE roles reach 455 as tracker coverage widens
• Hands-on: four layers of alerts for client data that arrives late, loses rows, changes schema or stops arriving
• OpenTelemetry for LLM apps: instrument once, send traces to both Datadog and self-hosted Langfuse
• Observability for LLM systems: trace every request, control logging and reconcile costs

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