Staff Statistics Engineer - Feature Flagging and Experimentation
The Opportunity We are looking for a Stats Engineering leader to help us build two new Datadog products from scratch - Feature Flags and Experiments. Our goal with these products is to help developers and product teams ship features quickly, experiment as second-nature, and make decisions with confidence. To do t
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Staff Statistics Engineer - Feature Flagging and Experimentation at Datadog in New York City. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Opportunity We are looking for a Stats Engineering leader to help us build two new Datadog products from scratch - Feature Flags and Experiments. Our goal with these products is to help developers and product teams ship features quickly, experiment as second-nature, and make decisions with confidence. To do t
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- 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
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- Build tools for engineers like yourself – we use our own products everyday to make decisions
- Influence the experimentation and AI-centric roadmap for Product Analytics, a budding, new sector for Datadog
- Work with kind and knowledgeable teammates who are at the top of their craft and happy to collaborate, teach, and learn
- Competitive global benefits
- Continuous professional development
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- Build tools for engineers like yourself – we use our own products everyday to make decisions
- Influence the experimentation and AI-centric roadmap for Product Analytics, a budding, new sector for Datadog
- Work with kind and knowledgeable teammates who are at the top of their craft and happy to collaborate, teach, and learn
- Competitive global benefits
- Continuous professional development
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