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Datadog's Infrastructure products help engineers understand and operate the systems their applications depend on. Our customers work in complex environments like Kubernetes and serverless, where infrastructure changes constantly, information is dense, and decisions about reliability, performance, and cost are closely connected.
We're looking for a Staff Product Designer to join Modern Compute, with an initial focus on Containers Autoscaling. Autoscaling helps engineering teams make better decisions about how their applications and infrastructure use resources. Designing these experiences requires making deeply technical systems understandable, helping customers act with confidence, and fitting into the tools and workflows they already use.
The team is rethinking how workload and cluster autoscaling come together as a more coherent product experience. This includes how customers get started, understand recommendations, evaluate value, and safely apply changes across their environments. The work also connects to other parts of Datadog, including observability, Cloud Cost Management, permissions, and AI-assisted workflows.
As a Staff Product Designer, you will help define that direction and lead the work from early problem framing through shipped product. You will partner closely with product and engineering, bring a high level of interaction and visual craft to complex workflows, and help raise the quality of design across Modern Compute.
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 help our Datadogs find a work-life rhythm that works for them.
- Lead end-to-end product design for Modern Compute, initially focused on our Autoscaling product.
- Help define the product direction for an area that is still evolving, from early framing and exploration through detailed design and delivery.
- Design clear, trustworthy experiences for engineers making high-stakes decisions about infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost.
- Simplify complex technical concepts without removing the detail and control expert users need.
- Work closely with product and engineering leaders to identify the right problems, make decisions clearer, and connect work across multiple teams.
- Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, including complex states, data-heavy workflows, and edge cases.
- Create reusable patterns that improve consistency across Modern Compute and the broader Datadog product.
- Mentor other designers through critique, feedback, and hands-on partnership.
- Design and build realistic prototypes in code using coding agents, while applying good judgment about when other tools or levels of fidelity are more appropriate.
Who you are
- You have 10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products, including experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope.
- You bring exceptional interaction and visual design craft, particularly in dense, technical, or data-heavy experiences.
- You have led ambiguous product work where the direction was not already defined and your involvement changed the outcome.
- You can simplify complex systems for expert users without watering down how those systems work.
- You are comfortable working closely with product managers and engineers throughout the product development process.
- You communicate complex ideas clearly and can build confidence in a direction across design, product, engineering, and senior leadership.
- You think beyond an individual feature and can create systems or patterns that work across products and teams.
- You balance long-term product direction with hands-on execution and attention to detail.
- You actively mentor other designers and help improve the quality of work around you.
- You can design and build code-based prototypes using AI and coding agents, or have demonstrated the ability to quickly develop that capability.
Bonus points
- Experience designing infrastructure, observability, cloud, or developer tools.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, autoscaling, GitOps, YAML, or related infrastructure workflows.
- Experience designing products for SREs, platform engineers, or application developers.
- Experience working across a multi-product SaaS platform.
- Experience creating design patterns that were adopted by multiple teams.
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 and the opportunity 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.
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About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
The opportunity
Datadog's Infrastructure products help engineers understand and operate the systems their applications depend on. Our customers work in complex environments like Kubernetes and serverless, where infrastructure changes constantly, information is dense, and decisions about reliability, performance, and cost are closely connected.
We're looking for a Staff Product Designer to join Modern Compute, with an initial focus on Containers Autoscaling. Autoscaling helps engineering teams make better decisions about how their applications and infrastructure use resources. Designing these experiences requires making deeply technical systems understandable, helping customers act with confidence, and fitting into the tools and workflows they already use.
The team is rethinking how workload and cluster autoscaling come together as a more coherent product experience. This includes how customers get started, understand recommendations, evaluate value, and safely apply changes across their environments. The work also connects to other parts of Datadog, including observability, Cloud Cost Management, permissions, and AI-assisted workflows.
As a Staff Product Designer, you will help define that direction and lead the work from early problem framing through shipped product. You will partner closely with product and engineering, bring a high level of interaction and visual craft to complex workflows, and help raise the quality of design across Modern Compute.
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 help our Datadogs find a work-life rhythm that works for them.
- Lead end-to-end product design for Modern Compute, initially focused on our Autoscaling product.
- Help define the product direction for an area that is still evolving, from early framing and exploration through detailed design and delivery.
- Design clear, trustworthy experiences for engineers making high-stakes decisions about infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost.
- Simplify complex technical concepts without removing the detail and control expert users need.
- Work closely with product and engineering leaders to identify the right problems, make decisions clearer, and connect work across multiple teams.
- Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, including complex states, data-heavy workflows, and edge cases.
- Create reusable patterns that improve consistency across Modern Compute and the broader Datadog product.
- Mentor other designers through critique, feedback, and hands-on partnership.
- Design and build realistic prototypes in code using coding agents, while applying good judgment about when other tools or levels of fidelity are more appropriate.
Who you are
- You have 10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products, including experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope.
- You bring exceptional interaction and visual design craft, particularly in dense, technical, or data-heavy experiences.
- You have led ambiguous product work where the direction was not already defined and your involvement changed the outcome.
- You can simplify complex systems for expert users without watering down how those systems work.
- You are comfortable working closely with product managers and engineers throughout the product development process.
- You communicate complex ideas clearly and can build confidence in a direction across design, product, engineering, and senior leadership.
- You think beyond an individual feature and can create systems or patterns that work across products and teams.
- You balance long-term product direction with hands-on execution and attention to detail.
- You actively mentor other designers and help improve the quality of work around you.
- You can design and build code-based prototypes using AI and coding agents, or have demonstrated the ability to quickly develop that capability.
Bonus points
- Experience designing infrastructure, observability, cloud, or developer tools.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, autoscaling, GitOps, YAML, or related infrastructure workflows.
- Experience designing products for SREs, platform engineers, or application developers.
- Experience working across a multi-product SaaS platform.
- Experience creating design patterns that were adopted by multiple teams.
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 and the opportunity 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.
LI-HYBRID
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Staff Designer
Align your portfolio with PERM requirements
PERM requires your employer to define a specific minimum qualification for the role. Make sure your portfolio and degree directly match that stated requirement, because gaps between your credentials and the job description can trigger audit scrutiny.
Verify your degree field supports EB-2
EB-2 eligibility turns on whether your degree is in a field directly related to design. A fine arts or graphic design degree maps cleanly, but a general business degree may require supplemental evidence of specialized design expertise to qualify.
Use O*NET to frame your specialty occupation case
Look up the Staff Designer occupation profile on O*NET to find the official degree requirements and skill descriptors DOL recognizes. Employers use this data when writing the PERM job description, and matching your credentials to it strengthens the filing.
Target employers with PERM filing history
Search for Staff Designer roles on Migrate Mate, which filters for employers with active green card sponsorship history. Focusing your search on verified PERM sponsors avoids wasting time on companies that have never navigated the filing process.
Confirm prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Run the offered salary against the OFLC Wage Search before signing anything. DOL sets prevailing wage levels by job title, region, and experience tier, and your employer must pay at or above that level throughout the PERM and I-140 process.
Ask about concurrent I-140 and I-485 filing eligibility
If your priority date is current when PERM certifies, your employer can file the I-140 and I-485 together, which locks in your green card application date immediately. Confirming this upfront with your employer's immigration counsel can cut months off your timeline.
Green Card Staff Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Staff Designer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Staff Designer roles typically qualify for EB-3 as skilled worker positions, and can support EB-2 when the employer requires an advanced degree or equivalent specialized credentials. The deciding factor is how the employer writes the minimum job requirements in the PERM labor certification. If the role requires a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus substantial specialized experience, EB-2 becomes viable.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for a Staff Designer?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant status capped at 85,000 new approvals annually and subject to a lottery. PERM-based green card sponsorship has no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most nationalities, leads to permanent residency, and is not lottery-dependent. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification, I-140 approval, and adjustment of status can take two or more years combined, compared to an H-1B approval in a few months.
How can I find Staff Designer jobs where the employer will sponsor a green card?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter Staff Designer roles by employers who have a documented history of PERM sponsorship, which removes the uncertainty of cold-applying to companies that have never filed for a foreign worker. Most general job boards don't surface sponsorship history at all, so you end up spending significant time on outreach that leads nowhere.
What does the PERM recruitment process mean for my Staff Designer job search?
Before filing PERM, your employer must run a DOL-mandated recruitment campaign to demonstrate no qualified U.S. worker applied for the role. This process typically takes 60 to 90 days. For you as the candidate, it means your start date and green card timeline depend on that recruitment completing without a successful U.S. applicant. Understanding this cycle helps you set realistic expectations when negotiating your offer.
Can a Staff Designer self-petition for a green card without employer sponsorship?
Self-petition is possible under EB-1A for individuals with demonstrated extraordinary recognition in the field, or under EB-2 National Interest Waiver for those whose work benefits the U.S. in a significant way. Both paths are harder to establish for Staff Designers than employer-sponsored PERM, because they require evidence well beyond normal professional accomplishment. Most Staff Designers pursue employer-sponsored EB-2 or EB-3 as the more accessible route. Consult an immigration attorney to assess whether your specific credentials support a self-petition.