Frontend Staff Engineer (Accessibility)

Summary

Join Datadog's DesignOps team as a seasoned Frontend Staff Engineer specializing in accessibility. This pivotal role involves defining and leading the company's accessibility roadmap, building scalable tooling, and championing best practices. You will build the strategic vision for accessibility, drive execution, and ensure scalable tooling. This position demands technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership to integrate accessibility into products and processes. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace for work-life harmony. The role includes significant coding responsibilities (React, TypeScript, and CSS). Successful candidates will demonstrate strong leadership and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Deep knowledge of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG, ARIA) and tools
• Proven track record of successful projects in the accessibility space
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience, including both effective communication of complex concepts and experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
• Ability to define a technical vision and execute it
• Hands-on experience working with React, TypeScript, advanced CSS with a strong understanding of accessibility implications
• Experience working in cross-functional teams, with a track record of building effective partnerships with product managers and engineers

Responsibilities

• Establish a clear company-wide vision for accessibility, integrating it into our design and development processes
• Advocate for accessibility as a key pillar of product quality and user experience
• Build scalable, reusable frameworks and tooling to integrate accessibility testing and compliance into our development processes
• Update our Design System to comply with accessibility standards
• Identify and implement tools to streamline accessibility audits, testing, and compliance across teams
• Maintain and update accessibility standards and documentation, ensuring alignment with evolving best practices and regulations
• Act as a subject-matter expert on accessibility, providing guidance to teams on technical implementations and trade-offs
• Evangelize best practices and embed accessibility into our frontend community’s workflows
• Represent accessibility priorities in planning sessions, design reviews, and retrospectives
• Monitor industry trends and share insights to keep Datadog at the forefront of accessibility innovation
• Participate in some customer calls as an accessibility expert

Preferred Qualifications

Experience developing and scaling design systems

Benefits

• 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, ability 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