Staff Product Designer, Modern Compute

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.

• 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