Role Summary:

Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Logs offering by unifying observability pipelines with log management software that customers deploy and manage in their own infrastructure. This role will focus on building and scaling systems that process, route, and store high-volume observability data within customer-managed infrastructure. You will operate as a hands-on technical leader, driving architecture, cross-team delivery, and product direction across a complex and evolving space. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence product strategy, mentor engineers, and solve deeply technical challenges at scale.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Make customer-controlled deployments feel like a managed Datadog product: deployment, upgrades, configuration, observability, diagnostics, reliability, and secure operation across diverse customer cloud environments
• Build and scale high-throughput systems for log processing, routing, and transformation across distributed environments
• Lead cross-team initiatives, aligning engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-team projects
• Design and implement software that runs reliably that customers deploy and operate within their own cloud infrastructure.
• Improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through thoughtful trade-off analysis and capacity planning
• Contribute hands-on to critical code paths, debugging, and deployment challenges in customer environments
  
  

Who You Are:

• You have significant experience building software that is installed, deployed, and operated in customer environments rather than only as a fully managed SaaS service.
• You have strong expertise in distributed systems, including scalability, performance optimization, and high-throughput data processing
• You are proficient in systems-level programming (e.g., Go, Rust, or C++) and understand how software runs across diverse environments (e.g., Linux systems)
• You have experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and are comfortable troubleshooting infrastructure and networking issues
• You are experienced with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes in production environments
• You have a track record of leading large, cross-functional engineering efforts and influencing technical direction across 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:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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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We're a new team building AI-assisted product experiences that help Datadog customers go from investigation to action, by enabling conversational workflows, guided remediations, and codefixes that address the root cause of production issues.

We're looking for a product-minded engineer to help us quickly define and ship applied AI experiences across chat, remediations, and codefixes. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering, product development, and prompt engineering, with a strong emphasis on building reliable, production-quality AI systems.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You'll Do:

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to build and iterate on AI-powered product experiences in Bits AI SRE.
• Develop customer-facing systems across chat, remediations, and codefixes that help users resolve production issues more quickly.
• Work on prompts, evaluation loops, and backend systems to make applied AI workflows reliable, useful, and production-ready.
• Prototype quickly, test what works in the real world, and iterate rapidly to ship new product capabilities.
• Build the infrastructure and product logic needed to connect AI outputs to meaningful actions, including operational remediations and generated code changes.
• Collaborate with partner teams across Datadog to expand remediation capabilities and integrate with systems that support investigation, automation, and code generation.
• Follow the latest developments in LLM prompting, agent design, and applied AI product development, and bring strong judgment about what is practical to use in production.

Who You Are:

• You're an engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience, with strong backend engineering skills and a product mindset. You have experience building production systems in Go (or similar) and have worked with LLM-based systems in practice.
• You are excited about applied AI and motivated by building product experiences that help users take meaningful action, not just generate insights.
• You have experience with prompt engineering, evaluation, and iteration for LLM-powered systems, and know how to improve quality through experimentation and feedback.
• You have strong engineering fundamentals and can build the systems needed to productionize AI features, including integrating model behavior into reliable user-facing products.
• You are comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with high ambiguity, and enjoy prototyping, learning quickly, and shipping early versions of new ideas.
• You collaborate well with cross-functional partners and can work effectively with product, design, and engineering to shape both the user experience and the technical implementation.
• You care about product quality and user outcomes, and can balance speed with pragmatism when building new AI-powered workflows.
• Bonus: you have experience with Kubernetes or systems related to production remediation and operational automation.
• Requirement - Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Plus - You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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 listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

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Product Analytics aims to help developers, product managers and designers understand their users, take data-oriented product decisions and evaluate the impact of technical issues on their customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Analytics Backend team, you'll join a new, fast-growing product area. You will help define our technical vision, influence the product roadmap, and solve complex engineering challenges at scale.

In Product Analytics, we consume and process data from multiple sources: clickstreams, user information, and data from third-party systems. Your work will be central to building a robust and flexible system that can ingest, manipulate, correlate and store all this data to have it efficiently queried by our end users.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do: 

• Design, build, and maintain core backend systems for Product Analytics, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance 
• Drive technical architecture decisions in alignment with product goals and collaborate closely with frontend and platform teams 
• Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage and query solutions to our needs
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Participate in hands-on engineering work including coding, code reviews, and design reviews

Who You Are: 

• A seasoned backend engineer with deep expertise in designing and building distributed systems 
• Comfortable influencing technical direction without direct management authority, operating as a technical leader and mentor 
• Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle 
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners 
• Strong technician, particularly with Go, Java or SQL, who is interested in remaining a hands-on contributor
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products 

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, 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

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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The eBPF Platform team owns the shared eBPF infrastructure inside the Datadog Agent, and is responsible for its reliability, performance, and evolution across a wide variety of Linux distributions and kernel versions. We build tooling and agent functionality for product teams utilizing eBPF (Network Performance Monitoring, Universal Service Monitoring, Cloud Workload Security, GPU Monitoring), enable new teams exploring eBPF, and centralize deep kernel expertise across the organization. The team contributes to open source projects such as btfhub and cilium/ebpf.

Datadog is investing heavily in GPU Monitoring to give customers deep visibility into GPU utilization, health, and performance across their infrastructure. The eBPF Platform team builds the agent-side foundation that makes this possible, from eBPF programs that capture GPU activity at the kernel level, to the metrics pipelines and validation infrastructure that ensure data quality at scale.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of eBPF, the Linux kernel, and GPU infrastructure. You'll contribute to GPU Monitoring capabilities within the Datadog Agent while also working across the broader eBPF platform, investigating production incidents, improving reliability, and helping shape the architecture of one of the most widely deployed eBPF solutions in the industry.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to GPU Monitoring feature development end-to-end, from ideation to implementation within the Datadog Agent
• Build and maintain shared eBPF functionality for product teams to use in their eBPF-based products
• Investigate and debug complex production issues that span the kernel, eBPF programs, and agent runtime
• Research, prototype, develop, and document solutions to hard problems in the eBPF and GPU monitoring space
• Provide technical input to product and architecture decisions

Who You Are:

• You have experience working with and developing in the Linux kernel, either using eBPF, as a kernel developer, or building low level programs in C
• You have significant experience building high throughput/low latency systems
• You have been building applications and tooling for 5+ years and know the systems you’ve worked on in depth
• You are motivated by solving problems for our customers first and foremost and building beautiful products that our customers love
• You have ability to work effectively in a team

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
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global Spring 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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As a Staff Software Engineer on Datadog’s Cloud FinOps team, you will help shape how the company understands, analyzes, and optimizes its cloud infrastructure spend. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, finance, and executive leadership, building the systems and insights that drive company-wide decisions about infrastructure usage, AI usage and efficiency. You will design scalable solutions that improve cost attribution, forecasting, and visibility across Datadog’s multi-cloud environment. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence strategic decisions, solve complex infrastructure efficiency challenges, and help define the future of FinOps capabilities at Datadog.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and evolve internal platforms and tools that provide visibility into Datadog’s cloud infrastructure costs across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Partner with Finance, Engineering, and Executive Leadership to analyze cloud spend trends and inform strategic decisions.
• Develop scalable models and systems for cloud cost attribution across complex shared infrastructure.
• Build forward-looking FinOps capabilities that help teams proactively manage and optimize infrastructure usage.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering leaders to understand system architecture and translate infrastructure usage patterns into actionable cost insights.
• Influence company-wide initiatives around cost efficiency, forecasting, and infrastructure planning.
• Raises team performance by leading by example, building systems and patterns that improve productivity and autonomy by guiding with pragmatic technical judgment while being a hands-on contributor.

Who You Are:

• Experience designing or operating distributed systems at scale.
• Proven ability to lead large cross-organizational technical initiatives and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineering, finance, and executive audiences.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous problem spaces and develop scalable solutions.
• Interest in infrastructure efficiency, cost attribution, and FinOps-style problem domains.

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:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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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As a Research Engineer on our team, you will partner with Research Scientists to turn research ideas into working systems, building the data, tooling, and infrastructure that enable rapid iteration, trustworthy evaluation, and a smooth path from prototype to production.

Building on our track record of AI-powered solutions (e.g., Bits AI, Bits Evolve, and our time series foundation model), Datadog AI Research tackles high-risk, high-reward problems grounded in real-world challenges in cloud observability and security.

We are focused on two research areas:

1. World Models for Observability -- Training multimodal foundation models that learn the joint dynamics of distributed systems across metrics, traces, logs, topology, and events. These models power advanced forecasting, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, counterfactual simulation ("what if?"), and provide a learned planning backbone for our autonomous agents.
2. Trained Agents for Observability-- Post-training models to operate autonomously across Datadog's domain. SRE incident response is our first target, with a clear path to code repair, security response, and infrastructure optimization. We build the simulation environments, RL training loops, and evaluation infrastructure needed to train agents that match or surpass frontier models at a fraction of the cost.

What You'll Do:

• Build and operate multimodal data pipelines, training and evaluation infrastructure, benchmarks, and internal tooling
• Implement models, run experiments at scale, and profile for reliability, performance, and cost
• Build simulation environments and replay infrastructure for agent training and evaluation
• Orchestrate distributed training and distributed RL with Ray, including scheduling, scaling, and failure recovery
• Establish rigorous automated benchmarks and regression tests for world model predictions, agent performance, and simulation fidelity
• Collaborate with Research Scientists, Product, and Engineering to integrate capabilities into Datadog's products and to harden prototypes into reliable services
• Contribute to research publications at top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML), and produce high-quality code, documentation, and open-source artifacts

Who You Are:

• You have depth in distributed computing, RL Infra, and ML systems for training and inference at scale; experience with Ray, Slurm, or similar frameworks is a plus
• You are proficient in Python, familiar with a systems language (e.g., Rust, C++, or Go), and comfortable with modern cloud and data infrastructure
• You have practical experience implementing and operating ML training and inference systems (e.g., PyTorch or JAX), including containerization, orchestration, and GPU acceleration
• You have practical experience with large-scale model training and fine-tuning, including frameworks like Megatron-LM, DeepSpeed, SkyRL, VeRL, or TorchTitan, and techniques such as SFT, RLVR, RLHF, and efficient inference (quantization, speculative decoding)
• You can explain design and performance trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• You have experience supporting or contributing to research publications

Bonus Points (any of the following):

• You have strong software engineering skills with experience in domains such as observability, SRE, or security
• You have experience bridging research prototypes and real-world product applications, especially with large foundation models, world models, or RL-trained agents
• You have a passion for pushing the boundaries of AI with a focus on customer impact and scalable deployment
• You have hands-on experience with GPU programming and optimization, including CUDA
• You have experience writing production data pipelines and applications
• You have experience building simulation or sandbox environments for agent training

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:

• Competitive global benefits 
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues across the Datadog offices in New York City and Paris
• Opportunity to attend and present at conferences and meetups
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

About Datadog: 

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

Your Privacy:

Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.

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At Datadog, we leverage AI across our observability platform to improve monitoring, speed up incident resolution, and ensure data reliability for cloud applications.

Datadog’s Deployment Gates team builds customer-facing systems that decide whether software should ship to production. Deployment Gates sit directly in customers’ CI/CD pipelines and use observability data to answer one of the hardest questions in software delivery:
Given everything we know right now, is this deployment safe to proceed?

In this role, you will:

• Work on an analysis service that prevents incidents by detecting faulty software changes in production before they reach clients

• Lead the design of progressive deployment automation, starting with zero-setup, conservative AI rules and evolving toward adaptive gates that learn from incidents and organizational patterns
• Design the foundation for autonomous remediation, connecting what changed in code to what broke in production, from blocking and rolling back unsafe deployments to proposing fixes and enforcing policies

This is a highly product‑minded engineering role: you’ll work from problem discovery and UX all the way to reliable, scalable production systems.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What you’ll do:

• Build AI-driven deployment gates: Design and ship decision systems that evaluate customer deployments using CI/CD context and Datadog telemetry, producing safe, explainable allow/block outcomes
• Own evals and rollout: Define precision, recall, and trust metrics; build offline and online evals; validate changes in shadow mode; and safely promote improvements to enforcement
• Design for robustness and safety: Implement conservative defaults, guardrails, fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop paths so gates behave predictably under noisy or incomplete data
• Partner closely with Product: Work hand-in-hand with the Product Manager to translate customer problems, adoption signals, and roadmap goals into concrete technical decisions and iterations
• Integrate across the Datadog platform: Partner with internal AI teams building the Faulty Deployment Detection pipeline, as well as teams working on LLMs and AI agents
• Own production systems: Build and operate reliable backend services that run in the critical path of customer deployments, and be on-call for those services

Who you are:

• A Product‑minded engineer who ships AI to production
• You have 5+ years experience with backend systems and microservices performance: tracing, latency breakdowns, concurrency, and resiliency patterns
• You are proficient in a modern programming language; strong API/service design; production ops (monitoring, alerting, on‑call rotation)
• You have proven experience delivering software based on LLM/agent features to production
• You are comfortable owning user journeys, iterating from prototype → alpha → GA, and measuring impact with clear product metrics
• An End-to-end AI implementation owner: You understands the end-to-end LLM product lifecycle
• Fluent with offline/online evals for AI systems
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output

Bonus Point:

• Experience with Continuous Delivery tools (i.e. ArgoCD / Argo Rollouts, Spinnaker, Octopus Deploy)
• Exposure to planning/agent frameworks, tool‑use orchestration, RAG, and retrieval/indexing for observability data
• You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

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, 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

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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We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team. APM is a product which provides deep visibility into applications, enabling users to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize services. With distributed tracing, profiling, out-of-the-box dashboards, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data, Datadog APM provides some of the deepest and most structured visibility into the health and performance of applications. This context sets us up for an opportunity to be the world leaders in agentic investigations and incident troubleshooting. 

You’ll act as a technical leader within the APM group, focused on agentic workflows. You’ll lead efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as the technical owner for GenAI initiatives within APM, leading design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-powered features across multiple teams.
• Guide long-term strategy and technical direction for GenAI workflows across APM and related products.
• Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques.
• Contribute to Datadog’s broader senior engineering community through thought leadership and collaboration on company-wide initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools.
• Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user.
• Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.
• Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups.

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 4+ years leading cross-team technical initiatives.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale GenAI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment
• You’re highly proficient in model development, deployment, evaluation, and optimization, with hands-on experience in building end-to-end ML systems.
• Ability to drive initiatives across cross-functional teams, and solve ambiguous challenges
• You are passionate about mentoring others and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

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:

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
• Competitive global benefits
• Continuous professional development

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

#LI-Hybrid

The opportunity

Datadog’s APM Experiences team owns the core product experience for Application Performance Monitoring — including distributed tracing, service representation, and more. We’re building a new wave of AI-powered capabilities that help customers detect, resolve, and prevent performance issues faster. In this role, you will lead end‑to‑end development of LLM- and Agent‑based features that can:

• Debug and investigate application performance issues down to the root cause, as both a developer assistant and a fully autonomous agent
• Proactively recommend performance and reliability-based optimizations to prevent the next incident
• Automatically create intelligent monitors and SLOs for the most important business flows and critical paths

This is a highly product‑minded engineering role: you’ll work from problem discovery and UX all the way to reliable, scalable production systems.

What you’ll do

• Shape AI experiences for APM. Design and ship LLM/agentic workflows that analyze traces, metrics, logs, and other telemetry to generate diagnoses, explanations, and guided fixes.
• Own the full loop. Prototype quickly, define success metrics and evals, run experiments, iterate, and ultimately productionize for scale and reliability.
• Build robust agent systems. Develop tools, retrieval and planning strategies, and guardrails; manage prompts/evals; design fallbacks and human‑in‑the‑loop paths.
• Integrate with Datadog’s platform. Leverage surfaces like Trace Explorer, Service Catalog, monitors, and workflows to deliver end‑to‑end value in the APM UI.
• Partner deeply. Collaborate with PM, Design, and partner teams to build cohesive experiences.
• Raise the bar on engineering. Write performant, maintainable backend code, own services in production, and improve reliability for high‑throughput, low‑latency data systems.

Who you are

Product‑minded engineer who ships AI to production

• 4+ years building backend or real-time ML systems; you value simplicity, correctness, and performance
• Proven experience delivering LLM/agent features to production (prompting, tooling, evals, safety/guardrails)
• Comfortable owning user journeys, iterating from prototype → alpha → GA, and measuring impact with clear product metrics
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

Strong ML / applied science fundamentals

• Solid grasp of the ML lifecycle (task definition, dataset collection, modeling, evaluation, deployment, iteration) and statistics (experiment design, confidence intervals)
• Experience choosing/modeling the right technique for the job (e.g., anomaly detection, ranking/recommendation, NLP), and knowing when a heuristic beats a model
• Fluency with offline/online evals for AI systems; can build reliable golden sets and automatic regressions

Distributed systems & observability savvy

• Experience with microservices performance: tracing, latency breakdowns, concurrency, and resiliency patterns
• Proficient in Go, Java, or Python; strong API/service design; production ops (monitoring, alerting, on‑call rotation)

Nice to have

• Hands‑on with distributed tracing stacks (OpenTelemetry/Datadog APM), profilers, and logs/metrics pipelines
• Exposure to planning/agent frameworks, tool‑use orchestration, RAG, and retrieval/indexing for observability data
• Familiarity with SLO/SLA practices and incident response

Benefits and Growth:

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business.
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn.
• Competitive global benefits.
• Continuous professional development.
  
  

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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The Data Science team designs and builds algorithmically driven features in the Datadog app. We work across a range of applications, primarily focusing on analysis on streaming data such as anomaly detection, error outliers and faulty deployment analysis. As a Software Engineer on the Data Science team, you will design, build and scale the backend systems that power our growing suite of Watchdog products. You will be working on large-scale distributed systems, horizontally-scalable datastores and a variety of data-processing frameworks to build our next-generation platform and capabilities for Data Science at Datadog. 

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do: 

• Build common services and components encapsulating data science capabilities for other products and teams to leverage
• Enable new capabilities for our core products by integrating and preprocessing data from tens of sources and preparing it for incorporation into data science models
• Ensure that our data science-driven features continue to scale well as Datadog adds more customers and ingests more data per customer
• Leverage modern tools and frameworks to improve the performance and cost-efficiency of data science services
• Join an amazing team of data scientists and software engineers building a product that our customers love to use
• Work all over the stack, moving fluidly between programming languages and technologies
  

Who You Are: 

• You have experience working in Python, Java, Scala or Go 
• You have experience working with microservices and/or distributed systems
• You value simplicity and getting the right things done
• (Senior Level) You have built high-volume data pipelines
• (Senior Level) You have expertise in Python, Go or Scala and are familiar with Spark or Flink
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how

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: 

• Competitive global benefits 
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues across the Datadog offices in New York City and Paris
• Opportunity to attend and present at conferences and meetups
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

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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#LI-Hybrid

We’re building a new team building to bring the power of Datadog to developers within AI-focused Developer workflows such as AI agents like Cursor, Claude code, GitHub Copilot and Datadog’s native AI agents.

We’re looking for product-minded engineers who are excited about developer tools, SDLC improvements and AI in general to help us quickly define and ship features and tools that make all Datadog customers 10x developers.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do: 

• Work on agents, prompts, evals, MCPs and direct agent tools from ideation to productization, for allowing Datadog to help companies and developers to maximize the benefit of their integration with Datadog
• Help conceptualize and build innovative User flows and experiences within Datadog’s user space and different extensions 
• Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship
• Follow the latest research on LLM prompt optimization, agents, and code editing.
• Support other Datadog product teams to help them build and productionize their developer-focused AI Workflows. For example, you’ll work with the Live Debugger team to create an agentic production debugging experience, delivering on the vision of  “one click to reproduce” for production errors.

Who You Are: 

• You’re a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience who values code simplicity and performance. You’ve shipped software that uses LLMs to production
• You are passionate about Generative AI and its ability to help software engineers be more productive
• You have relevant experience with Large Language Models, large-scale systems and data sets, machine learning, or adjacent fields
• You are a great community ambassador and can drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You have experience writing classic or AI oriented developer tools(such as IDEs, static code analysis, SDLC tools etc).
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

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, 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

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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The ML Observability team builds cutting-edge tools to monitor, explain, and improve AI systems in production, particularly those leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. We provide robust, scalable observability for AI workloads, including drift detection and model evaluation, and behavior tracing, enabling customers to ship AI with confidence.

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the development of new features and foundational capabilities within Datadog’s LLM Observability product. You will shape product direction, drive experimentation, and apply your deep understanding of both AI systems and software engineering to solve open-ended problems in the fast-moving AI landscape. Your work will directly impact how our customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize LLM-based applications in production.

Join us in building the foundational tools that make AI systems observable, understandable, and reliable in the real world.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Drive design and implementation of LLM observability features.

• Ideate, prototype, and scale new product features to provide insights and drive improvements for generative AI systems
• Work cross-functionally with other eng teams, product, UX, and applied science to iterate fast and find product-market fit
• Develop and extend tools for tracing, evaluating, and debugging LLMs
• Influence architecture decisions and mentor engineers to build resilient, high-performance systems
• Stay close to customer pain points and use those insights to guide product and engineering priorities
• Stay current with industry trends and advancements in machine learning and observability, driving innovation within the team

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalable backend architectures
• Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-powered or GenAI applications. 
• Understanding of model internals, inference pipelines, evaluation techniques, and prompt engineering
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-changing spaces and have a product-oriented mindset
• You’re excited to shape the next generation of AI observability tools from the ground up
• Communicate clearly, think rigorously, and take pride in clean, maintainable code
• Experience with observability tools/platforms

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:

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
• Competitive global benefits
• Continuous professional development

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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We’re a new team building AI-assisted tools to make Datadog developers more effective, by autonomously generating tests, fixing bugs, and improving performance.

We’re looking for a product-minded generalist to help us quickly define and ship products that make all Datadog customers 10x developers.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with our users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge and delightful LLM-based agents.
• Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them with Datadog products.
• Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship.
• Follow the latest research on LLM prompting, agents, and code editing.
• Work with other Datadog teams to expand capabilities, for example integrating with the Datadog IDE extensions to deliver a CoPilot-like assistant, or Dynamic Instrumentation to collect more runtime data from production and pre-production environments.

Who You Are:

• You’re a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience (Go, Java, Python) who values code simplicity and performance. You’ve shipped software that uses LLMs to production.
• You are passionate about Generative AI and its ability to help software engineers be more productive.
• You have relevant experience with Large Language Models, large-scale systems and data sets, machine learning, or adjacent fields.
• You are a great community ambassador and can drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution.
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers.
• You have experience writing developer tools (such as IDEs, static code analysis tools, or compilers).
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

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:

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business.
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn.
• Competitive global benefits.
• Continuous professional development.
  
  

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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We’re a new team building AI-assisted tools to make Datadog developers more effective, by autonomously generating tests, fixing bugs, and improving performance.

We’re looking for a product-minded generalist to help us quickly define and ship products that make all Datadog customers 10x developers.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with our users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge and delightful LLM-based agents.
• Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them with Datadog products.
• Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship.
• Follow the latest research on LLM prompting, agents, and code editing.
• Work with other Datadog teams to expand capabilities, for example integrating with the Datadog IDE extensions to deliver a CoPilot-like assistant, or Dynamic Instrumentation to collect more runtime data from production and pre-production environments.

Who You Are:

• You’re a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience (Go, Java, Python) who values code simplicity and performance. You’ve shipped software that uses LLMs to production.
• You are passionate about Generative AI and its ability to help software engineers be more productive.
• You have relevant experience with Large Language Models, large-scale systems and data sets, machine learning, or adjacent fields.
• You are a great community ambassador and can drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution.
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers.
• You have experience writing developer tools (such as IDEs, static code analysis tools, or compilers).
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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, 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

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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The Applied AI team designs and builds algorithmically driven features in the Datadog app. We work across a range of applications, primarily focusing on analysis on streaming data such as anomaly detection, error outliers and faulty deployment analysis.  As an Applied Scientist you will work on building models and algorithms for machine learning powered features within the Datadog platform. You will work closely with our engineering and product partners to explore, build, scale and deliver these features that we incubate within the Applied AI team.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do: 

• Design solutions for our different use cases. You will research and benchmark relevant   algorithms to find the best fit for our use-cases
• Leverage machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to build new scalable product features
• Develop, deploy and monitor new and existing features to production
• Participate in our journal club by reading and presenting the latest academic research papers to the team
• Explore, analyze and tell the story behind high volumes of data flowing through Datadog systems 
• Maintain and monitor the models, services and infrastructure owned by your team
• Participate in your team’s on-call rotation

Who You Are: 

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning or related scientific field or equivalent experience
• You have experience working with high-scale systems and datasets including building models, applying machine learning to real business problems, and writing production data pipelines
• You can explain complex ideas and algorithms to non-technical audiences
• You care about code simplicity and performance
• You are excited to work on a user-facing product

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: 

• Competitive global benefits
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues across the Datadog offices in New York City and Paris
• Opportunity to attend and present at conferences and meetups
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

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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We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in AI/ML to join the Notebooks team. Datadog Notebooks provide a flexible tool for ad-hoc data analysis, collaborative investigations, and technical documentation. Its fluidity makes it an ideal surface for agents and humans to interact. The Notebook team is building AI-driven workflows for natural-language data analysis, assisted graph generation, automated investigations, and more. You will act as a technical leader in this domain, focused on building industry-leader AI-powered features. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Spearhead AI initiatives within Notebooks, serving as the technical owner for the design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-driven features.
• Shape the long-term technical direction and strategy for AI workflows within Notebooks and related products.
• Champion the full development cycle: from rapid prototyping and defining success metrics/evaluations to running experiments, iterating, and achieving production-ready scale and reliability.
• Drive product direction with a strong user focus, always advocating for the best end-user experience.
• Coordinate with other leaders and product teams interested in leveraging Notebooks in their AI-powered workflows.
• Develop robust agent systems, including tools, retrieval and planning strategies, guardrails, prompt management/evaluations, fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop processes.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, guiding the adoption of new technologies and evolving best-practices.

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead
• Proven track record of leading large-scale AI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment
• You have significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation
• You are passionate about mentoring others and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

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:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  
  

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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We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in AI/ML to join the Notebooks team. Datadog Notebooks provide a flexible tool for ad-hoc data analysis, collaborative investigations, and technical documentation. Its fluidity makes it an ideal surface for agents and humans to interact. The Notebook team is building AI-driven workflows for natural-language data analysis, assisted graph generation, automated investigations, and more. You will act as a technical leader in this domain, focused on building industry-leader AI-powered features. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Spearhead AI initiatives within Notebooks, serving as the technical owner for the design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-driven features.
• Shape the long-term technical direction and strategy for AI workflows within Notebooks and related products.
• Champion the full development cycle: from rapid prototyping and defining success metrics/evaluations to running experiments, iterating, and achieving production-ready scale and reliability.
• Drive product direction with a strong user focus, always advocating for the best end-user experience.
• Coordinate with other leaders and product teams interested in leveraging Notebooks in their AI-powered workflows.
• Develop robust agent systems, including tools, retrieval and planning strategies, guardrails, prompt management/evaluations, fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop processes.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, guiding the adoption of new technologies and evolving best-practices.

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead
• Proven track record of leading large-scale AI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment
• You have significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation
• You are passionate about mentoring others and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build

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:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  
  

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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The AI Platform team at Datadog builds the infrastructure that powers the next generation of generative AI features across our products.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Evaluation and Annotation team, you will design and evolve the systems that define and measure AI quality at scale. This includes building evaluation pipelines, model performance monitoring, and annotation workflows that assess correctness, safety, bias, and reliability across production use cases.

Your work will directly shape how Datadog ships and maintains trustworthy AI capabilities. You will partner closely with product, ML, and infrastructure teams to define quality standards, integrate evaluation systems with our observability platform, and build human-in-the-loop feedback mechanisms that continuously improve model behavior.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and scale robust evaluation systems to measure the performance and reliability of LLMs and AI agents across Datadog’s product ecosystem
• Lead efforts to build human-in-the-loop and automated annotation pipelines for model assessment, ensuring high-quality training and feedback data
• Define and implement continuous evaluation workflows in CI/CD and production environments to monitor model behavior in real time
• Analyze model outputs for correctness, bias, safety, and reliability and translate insights into actionable improvements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Applied Scientists, Researchers, product managers, and platform engineers to establish best practices for responsible AI
• Mentor team members and contribute to long-term technical strategy focused on AI quality, trust, and safety

Who You Are:

• You have 6+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems or machine learning systems in production environments
• You’ve designed infrastructure to support AI/ML model evaluation, annotation, or benchmarking workflows
• You approach engineering with a focus on system design, long-term maintainability, and reliability
• You bring a strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, including evaluation metrics, prompt analysis, and trust & safety challenges
• You thrive in cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.
• Bonus: you’ve used open-source tools like evaluation frameworks (e.g., lm-eval-harness), vector databases, or human feedback loops

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, 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

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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We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Logs organization at Datadog and help redefine how our customers ingest, query, and derive insights from logs data. In this role, you’ll work closely with Product Managers and customers to drive complex initiatives across ingestion pipelines, search infrastructure, and intelligent log management capabilities - all while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI and distributed systems. You’ll have the opportunity to lead efforts that shape the future of log management.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with Product Managers to define ambiguous product requirements and determine the most impactful solutions for customers
• Lead technical strategy and execution and design systems surrounding log query performance and ingestion at scale.
• Explore and prototype new capabilities and collaborate with peers on initiatives spanning AI-powered log management, security and business operations, advanced query capabilities, and external data sources query capabilities.
• Mentor engineers across levels and contribute to growing a high-performing, collaborative team culture
  
  

Who You Are:

• You have deep experience architecting and scaling backend systems, with a strong focus on data-intensive or distributed infrastructure
• You excel in ambiguous environments, demonstrating a mix of drive, curiosity and pragmatic decision-making
• You’ve partnered effectively with Product Managers and customers to define product direction and ship impactful features
• You have expertise in debugging complex systems and optimizing performance across real-time data pipelines
• You have experience in using AI agents tools in your day-to-day engineering practices
• You lead by example and enjoy helping others grow through mentorship and collaboration
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled

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:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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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We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in AI/ML to join the Notebooks team. Datadog Notebooks provide a flexible tool for ad-hoc data analysis, collaborative investigations, and technical documentation. Its fluidity makes it an ideal surface for agents and humans to interact. The Notebook team is building AI-driven workflows for natural-language data analysis, assisted graph generation, automated investigations, and more. You will act as a technical leader in this domain, focused on building industry-leader AI-powered features. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Spearhead AI initiatives within Notebooks, serving as the technical owner for the design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-driven features.
• Shape the long-term technical direction and strategy for AI workflows within Notebooks and related products.
• Champion the full development cycle: from rapid prototyping and defining success metrics/evaluations to running experiments, iterating, and achieving production-ready scale and reliability.
• Drive product direction with a strong user focus, always advocating for the best end-user experience.
• Coordinate with other leaders and product teams interested in leveraging Notebooks in their AI-powered workflows.
• Develop robust agent systems, including tools, retrieval and planning strategies, guardrails, prompt management/evaluations, fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop processes.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, guiding the adoption of new technologies and evolving best-practices.

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead
• Proven track record of leading large-scale AI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment
• You have significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation
• You are passionate about mentoring others and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build.
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  
  

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:

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The Opportunity:

Datadog’s Senior Staff Engineers are technical leaders operating at the forefront of large-scale systems design, building the infrastructure that will support our next five years of growth and beyond. They do this in three major ways:

As individual contributors, they bring world-class technical depth to build industry-leading systems in areas such as observability data platforms, distributed query engines, and real-time event streaming at global scale.

As technical leaders, they apply broad architectural perspective and deep systems thinking to align design decisions across teams and domains. They work across complex, multi-team problem spaces to define long-term technical direction, drive large-scale initiatives forward, and ensure consistent execution.

As engineering stewards, they play a key role in evolving our systems and engineering culture. They actively participate in Datadog’s senior technical community, bringing external insights and internal experience to elevate engineering standards and mentor the next generation of technical leaders.

Examples of projects a Senior Staff Engineer may lead include designing and launching a new distributed data storage engine capable of handling hundreds of millions of records per second, building the real-time infrastructure behind a new observability product, or re-architecting a core service to support exponential growth in throughput and complexity.

What You’ll Do:

• Be the technical owner of multiple critical systems or architecture areas, often spanning several teams or product lines.
• Drive the design and delivery of high-scale, high-impact projects, from vision to execution in production.
• Build consensus and alignment across stakeholders on key architectural decisions and long-term strategy.
• Deeply investigate and optimize performance, reliability, and efficiency in large-scale distributed systems.
• Collaborate with Staff Engineers, Directors, and VPs across the company to shape Datadog’s technical roadmap.
• Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.
• Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups.
  
  

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent practical experience.
• You have 10+ years of backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering experience.
• You have 4+ years of experience leading complex technical initiatives and cross-team projects.
  You have designed and delivered systems that are deeply technical, highly reliable, and serve critical business needs.
• You can navigate and make progress in ambiguous problem spaces, identifying the right problems to solve.
• You have exceptional communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared technical vision.
• You have deep expertise in one or more core systems domains—such as distributed storage, event streaming, networking, data infrastructure, or large-scale observability—and broad awareness of adjacent areas.
• You care about getting things right, not just getting them done, and you raise the bar for engineering quality around you.
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

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:

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
• Competitive global benefits
• Continuous professional development

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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As a Research Engineer on our team, you will partner with Research Scientists to turn research ideas into working systems, building the data, tooling, and infrastructure that enable rapid iteration, trustworthy evaluation, and a smooth path from prototype to production.

Building on our track record of AI-powered solutions (e.g., Bits AI, Bits Evolve, and our time series foundation model), Datadog AI Research tackles high-risk, high-reward problems grounded in real-world challenges in cloud observability and security.

We are focused on two research areas:

1. World Models for Observability -- Training multimodal foundation models that learn the joint dynamics of distributed systems across metrics, traces, logs, topology, and events. These models power advanced forecasting, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, counterfactual simulation ("what if?"), and provide a learned planning backbone for our autonomous agents.
2. Trained Agents for Observability-- Post-training models to operate autonomously across Datadog's domain. SRE incident response is our first target, with a clear path to code repair, security response, and infrastructure optimization. We build the simulation environments, RL training loops, and evaluation infrastructure needed to train agents that match or surpass frontier models at a fraction of the cost.

What You'll Do:

• Build and operate multimodal data pipelines, training and evaluation infrastructure, benchmarks, and internal tooling
• Implement models, run experiments at scale, and profile for reliability, performance, and cost
• Build simulation environments and replay infrastructure for agent training and evaluation
• Orchestrate distributed training and distributed RL with Ray, including scheduling, scaling, and failure recovery
• Establish rigorous automated benchmarks and regression tests for world model predictions, agent performance, and simulation fidelity
• Collaborate with Research Scientists, Product, and Engineering to integrate capabilities into Datadog's products and to harden prototypes into reliable services
• Contribute to research publications at top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML), and produce high-quality code, documentation, and open-source artifacts

Who You Are:

• You have depth in distributed computing, RL Infra, and ML systems for training and inference at scale; experience with Ray, Slurm, or similar frameworks is a plus
• You are proficient in Python, familiar with a systems language (e.g., Rust, C++, or Go), and comfortable with modern cloud and data infrastructure
• You have practical experience implementing and operating ML training and inference systems (e.g., PyTorch or JAX), including containerization, orchestration, and GPU acceleration
• You have practical experience with large-scale model training and fine-tuning, including frameworks like Megatron-LM, DeepSpeed, SkyRL, VeRL, or TorchTitan, and techniques such as SFT, RLVR, RLHF, and efficient inference (quantization, speculative decoding)
• You can explain design and performance trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• You have experience supporting or contributing to research publications

Bonus Points (any of the following):

• You have strong software engineering skills with experience in domains such as observability, SRE, or security
• You have experience bridging research prototypes and real-world product applications, especially with large foundation models, world models, or RL-trained agents
• You have a passion for pushing the boundaries of AI with a focus on customer impact and scalable deployment
• You have hands-on experience with GPU programming and optimization, including CUDA
• You have experience writing production data pipelines and applications
• You have experience building simulation or sandbox environments for agent training

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:

• Competitive global benefits 
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues across the Datadog offices in New York City and Paris
• Opportunity to attend and present at conferences and meetups
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

About Datadog: 

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

Your Privacy:

Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.

#LI-hybrid

We’re a new team building AI-assisted tools to make Datadog developers more effective, by autonomously generating tests, fixing bugs, and improving performance.

We’re looking for a product-minded generalist to help us quickly define and ship products that make all Datadog customers 10x developers.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with our users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge and delightful LLM-based agents.
• Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them with Datadog products.
• Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship.
• Follow the latest research on LLM prompting, agents, and code editing.
• Work with other Datadog teams to expand capabilities, for example integrating with the Datadog IDE extensions to deliver a CoPilot-like assistant, or Dynamic Instrumentation to collect more runtime data from production and pre-production environments.

Who You Are:

• You’re a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience (Go, Java, Python) who values code simplicity and performance. You’ve shipped software that uses LLMs to production.
• You are passionate about Generative AI and its ability to help software engineers be more productive.
• You have relevant experience with Large Language Models, large-scale systems and data sets, machine learning, or adjacent fields.
• You are a great community ambassador and can drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution.
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers.
• You have experience writing developer tools (such as IDEs, static code analysis tools, or compilers).
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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, 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

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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Datadog is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Code Coverage team, which is building the next generation of AI-powered developer tooling. This team owns Datadog’s Code Coverage product across the entire stack, helping customers track and enforce test coverage. Code Coverage is part of the Software Delivery suite, which enables engineering teams to move faster and more securely.

In this role, you will lead and develop a high-performing engineering team in an ambiguous environment. You’ll set technical direction, drive execution, and remain hands-on. You will partner closely with customers and product management to evolve the product into an automated system that leverages production signals and AI to improve test quality, relevance, and performance.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead and develop a team of four engineers in Madrid, supporting their growth through mentorship, regular 1:1s, and clear performance feedback, while fostering a strong culture of ownership and quality
• Guide the evolution of Code Coverage into an AI-powered system that uses production data and LLMs to identify coverage gaps and improve test effectiveness
• Partner with product management and customers to define and evolve the roadmap, aligning stakeholders and translating strategy into clear priorities
• Stay hands-on by contributing to architecture and design decisions, and by participating in the on-call rotation
  
  

Who You Are: 

• You have a strong interest in AI and agentic engineering, and are curious about how LLMs and autonomous systems can improve developer workflows
• You have experience leading an engineering team as a tech lead or manager, with a track record of developing engineers at different levels
• You are an excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and lead high-performing teams and set priorities effectively
• You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and can drive execution in evolving environments by forming clear value hypotheses and iterating quickly
• You have hands-on experience with Java or Go, worked on large scale distributed systems, and are willing to stay close to the code and participate in an on-call rotation
• You have strong product sense and communication skills, and can collaborate effectively with product managers, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders

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, 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

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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As a Research Scientist on our team, you will partner with Research Engineers, working on fundamental research problems and collaborating with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products.

Building on our track record of AI-powered solutions (e.g., Bits AI, Bits Evolve, and our time series foundation model), Datadog AI Research tackles high-risk, high-reward problems grounded in real-world challenges in cloud observability and security.

We are focused on two research areas:

1. World Models for Observability -- Training multimodal foundation models that learn the joint dynamics of distributed systems across metrics, traces, logs, topology, and events. These models power advanced forecasting, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, counterfactual simulation ("what if?"), and provide a learned planning backbone for our autonomous agents.
2. Trained Agents for Observability -- Post-training models to operate autonomously across Datadog's domain. SRE incident response is our first target, with a clear path to code repair, security response, and infrastructure optimization. We build the simulation environments, RL training loops, and evaluation infrastructure needed to train agents that match or surpass frontier models at a fraction of the cost.

What You'll Do:

• Conduct research in generative AI and machine learning, building specialized foundation models and trained agents for observability
• Train multimodal models on large-scale, diverse telemetry data (metrics, logs, traces, topology, events) using distributed training infrastructure
• Design and build simulated environments and RL training loops for on-policy agent training and evaluation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering) to integrate capabilities like multimodal world modeling and autonomous agents into Datadog's products
• Stay at the forefront of foundation models, world models, and RL-based agent research
• Contribute to research publications, present at top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML), and help open-source key model artifacts and benchmarks

Who You Are:

• You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, with deep expertise in areas like generative modeling, world models, AI agents, reinforcement learning, or multimodal learning (or have equivalent experience)
• You have extensive experience designing and implementing deep learning models and agents, with a strong background in distributed training frameworks (e.g., DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM) and ML libraries (PyTorch)
• You have a track record of impactful publications at top-tier venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, TMLR)
• You are familiar with efficient training, post-training, and inference techniques for large foundation models
• You can explain complex models and research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Bonus Points (any of the following):

• Experience bridging research and real-world product applications, especially with large foundation models, world models, or RL-trained agents
• Passion for pushing the boundaries of AI with a focus on customer impact and scalable deployment
• Experience writing production data pipelines and applications
• Hands-on experience with GPU programming and optimization, including CUDA

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:

• Competitive global benefits 
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues across the Datadog offices in New York City and Paris
• Opportunity to attend and present at conferences and meetups
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

About Datadog: 

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

Your Privacy:

Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.

We’re a new team building AI-assisted tools to make Datadog developers more effective, by autonomously generating tests, fixing bugs, and improving performance.

We’re looking for a product-minded generalist to help us quickly define and ship products that make all Datadog customers 10x developers.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with our users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge and delightful LLM-based agents.
• Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them with Datadog products.
• Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship.
• Follow the latest research on LLM prompting, agents, and code editing.
• Work with other Datadog teams to expand capabilities, for example integrating with the Datadog IDE extensions to deliver a CoPilot-like assistant, or Dynamic Instrumentation to collect more runtime data from production and pre-production environments.

Who You Are:

• You’re a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience (Go, Java, Python) who values code simplicity and performance. You’ve shipped software that uses LLMs to production.
• You are passionate about Generative AI and its ability to help software engineers be more productive.
• You have relevant experience with Large Language Models, large-scale systems and data sets, machine learning, or adjacent fields.
• You are a great community ambassador and can drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution.
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers.
• You have experience writing developer tools (such as IDEs, static code analysis tools, or compilers).
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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, 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

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:

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The Opportunity:

Datadog’s Staff Engineers are our technical leaders operating at the forefront of technology, building solutions that take us through at least our next five years of growth. They do this in three major ways:

As individual contributors, they bring world class technical abilities to deliver industry leading systems in areas such as data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet scale streaming.

As technical leaders they bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackling design and architectural problems spanning the organization, charting the right course, then leading delivery.

In both roles they participate in the staff engineering community and help us learn from what the industry is doing and what we've built before, and so improve company wide standards around software and systems engineering.

Some examples of projects a staff engineer may own include designing and building a new data storage engine handling hundreds of millions of records per second, being the lead engineer building a new product like synthetics or profiling, or rebuilding a critical service to handle the next two orders of magnitude of scale.

What You'll Do:

• Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business
• Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end, doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production
• Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience, either as a manager or technical leader
• You have led the design and delivery of industry-leading systems, either in their unique depth of technical expertise needed and/or in their scope of impact across a company’s engineering org
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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: 

• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility 
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking 
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health 
• Generous 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

Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications. Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe. The platforms are optimized for durability, high availability, low latency, internet-scale footprint and operability. 

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments
• Write in Go, Java Rust or C++, amongst other languages
• Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components
• Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
  
  

Who You Are:

• 6+ years of experience
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++) 
• You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…)
• You can get down to the low-level when needed
• You care about simple designs and performance
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

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, 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

#LI-LB1

At Datadog, we’re on a mission to bring security and observability together for modern organizations. Bits AI for Security is our AI agent that leverages LLMs to help analysts investigate alerts, understand threats, and respond faster. We’re looking for a product-minded AI Engineer to help us build the next generation of AI-driven security capabilities.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with users, security experts, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge AI agents that drive real value for our customers
• Develop tools, retrieval and planning strategies, and guardrails; manage prompts/evals; design fallbacks and human‑in‑the‑loop paths
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and partner teams to build cohesive experiences
• Prototype and see what works well, iterate closely with our users and experts, and then ship
• Follow the latest research on GenAI and AI agents

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence or a related scientific field or equivalent experience
• You’re a backend engineer with at least 4 years of professional experience (Go, Python, Java, etc.) who values code simplicity and performance
• You have relevant work experience with LLMs, large-scale systems, machine learning, or adjacent fields. You’ve shipped software that uses LLMs to production
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that values its engineers
• You are a good communicator and can drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output

Bonus Point:

• Excited to work in the security domain, with an understanding of how analysts investigate threats and alerts
• Fluency with offline/online evals for AI systems; can build reliable golden sets and automatic regressions
• Experience scaling products in a high-growth SaaS environment
• You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

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, 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

#LI-Hybrid

We’re a new team building AI-assisted tools to make Datadog developers more effective, by autonomously generating tests, fixing bugs, and improving performance.

We’re looking for a product-minded generalist to help us quickly define and ship products that make all Datadog customers 10x developers.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with our users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge and delightful LLM-based agents.
• Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them with Datadog products.
• Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship.
• Follow the latest research on LLM prompting, agents, and code editing.
• Work with other Datadog teams to expand capabilities, for example integrating with the Datadog IDE extensions to deliver a CoPilot-like assistant, or Dynamic Instrumentation to collect more runtime data from production and pre-production environments.

Who You Are:

• You’re a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience (Go, Java, Python) who values code simplicity and performance. You’ve shipped software that uses LLMs to production.
• You are passionate about Generative AI and its ability to help software engineers be more productive.
• You have relevant experience with Large Language Models, large-scale systems and data sets, machine learning, or adjacent fields.
• You are a great community ambassador and can drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution.
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers.
• You have experience writing developer tools (such as IDEs, static code analysis tools, or compilers).
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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, 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

#LI-Hybrid

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 this, we need to build a world-class experimentation engine, backed by state-of-the-art statistical methods like sequential analysis, CUPED, and change point detection, which help to solve the big problems in the experimentation world of early peeking, long experiment durations, and catching bugs respectively. 

Because there is often a technical, cultural, and linguistic gap between software engineers and statisticians, our Stats Engineers are unique in that they don't squarely fall into data science or software engineering. Data scientists typically understand the concepts, but may struggle to implement them in production with enterprise grade quality. Software engineers know how to build robust production systems, but can get lost implementing methods that don't have off the shelf frameworks. Here, we need the rare breed of builder who understands statistical concepts and can implement them in production.

Our experimentation platform will be used for root-cause analysis and decision-making across our 30,000+ customers of all shapes, sizes, and industries; we’ll help customers run everything from e-commerce-focused A/B tests on user adoption to infrastructure-based canary deployments in real-time to root cause major incidents, and connect the dots together across the worlds of the product manager, data person, and developer. 

This is a rare opportunity to work with senior leaders across engineering, product, and design to define the foundational components of Datadog’s Product Analytics and APM stack from the ground up, and develop an experimentation engine in an AI-first world. 

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• 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

Who You Are:

• You hold a PhD or equivalent experience in Statistics, Computer Science, Econometrics, or a related field. You have deep expertise in statistics, causal inference, or experimentation methods.
• You have a track record of shipping production-grade software that solves real user problems
• You understand the tradeoffs between statistical elegance and engineering complexity, and you know how to strategically make bets
• You have strong software engineering fundamentals and can write clean, maintainable code
• You can lead cross-functionally – with Engineering, Product, Design, and business teams.
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how.
• Bonus: You’ve built or worked on experimentation platforms at scale.
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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:

• 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

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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The AI Platform owns Datadog’s entire AI stack—everything from distributed training infrastructure (for our SOTA models) to the frameworks that power Bits AI, LLMObs, and the next wave of generative‑AI experiences. We’re expanding beyond model creation to the tooling that lets engineers ship production‑grade GenAI systems: retrieval‑augmented pipelines, autonomous agents, and evaluation harnesses.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to design and build this next‑gen platform, partner with Applied AI, product, and core‑infra teams to deliver:

• Large‑scale experimentation, training, deployment, and monitoring

• Developer toolchains for agents and other GenAI applications

• Low‑latency serving infrastructure that plugs AI features into any Datadog product

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable tools and infrastructure to support the efforts of our data scientists (model training & serving infra, CI/CD, orchestration, deployment,...)
• Create a development ecosystem that enables rapid experimentation and deployment of algorithms 
• Stay on the cutting edge of development in the MLOps domain and document best practices to share across teams 
• Drive the technical growth of Machine Learning as a distributed capability at Datadog, spanning all product areas, as well as leverage DD’s knowledge in observability to contribute back to the MLOps community

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning or a related scientific field or equivalent experience
• You are a software engineer at heart with 5+ years of professional experience in building distributed systems, data science applications, and/or machine learning engineering
• You have proven ability to architect, build, and operate distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale
• You have extensive experience executing projects that span data engineering, data science, and machine learning
• You ship fast, route around blockers, and are comfortable working with ambiguity
• You’re happy to jump into any part of the stack and do whatever’s needed to move a project forward
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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, 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

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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As a Research Scientist on our team, you will partner with Research Engineers, working on fundamental research problems and collaborating with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products.

Building on our track record of AI-powered solutions (e.g., Bits AI, Bits Evolve, and our time series foundation model), Datadog AI Research tackles high-risk, high-reward problems grounded in real-world challenges in cloud observability and security.

We are focused on two research areas:

1. World Models for Observability -- Training multimodal foundation models that learn the joint dynamics of distributed systems across metrics, traces, logs, topology, and events. These models power advanced forecasting, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, counterfactual simulation ("what if?"), and provide a learned planning backbone for our autonomous agents.
2. Trained Agents for Observability -- Post-training models to operate autonomously across Datadog's domain. SRE incident response is our first target, with a clear path to code repair, security response, and infrastructure optimization. We build the simulation environments, RL training loops, and evaluation infrastructure needed to train agents that match or surpass frontier models at a fraction of the cost.

What You'll Do:

• Conduct research in generative AI and machine learning, building specialized foundation models and trained agents for observability
• Train multimodal models on large-scale, diverse telemetry data (metrics, logs, traces, topology, events) using distributed training infrastructure
• Design and build simulated environments and RL training loops for on-policy agent training and evaluation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering) to integrate capabilities like multimodal world modeling and autonomous agents into Datadog's products
• Stay at the forefront of foundation models, world models, and RL-based agent research
• Contribute to research publications, present at top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML), and help open-source key model artifacts and benchmarks

Who You Are:

• You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, with deep expertise in areas like generative modeling, world models, AI agents, reinforcement learning, or multimodal learning (or have equivalent experience)
• You have extensive experience designing and implementing deep learning models and agents, with a strong background in distributed training frameworks (e.g., DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM) and ML libraries (PyTorch)
• You have a track record of impactful publications at top-tier venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, TMLR)
• You are familiar with efficient training, post-training, and inference techniques for large foundation models
• You can explain complex models and research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Bonus Points (any of the following):

• Experience bridging research and real-world product applications, especially with large foundation models, world models, or RL-trained agents
• Passion for pushing the boundaries of AI with a focus on customer impact and scalable deployment
• Experience writing production data pipelines and applications
• Hands-on experience with GPU programming and optimization, including CUDA

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:

• Competitive global benefits 
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues across the Datadog offices in New York City and Paris
• Opportunity to attend and present at conferences and meetups
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

About Datadog: 

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

Your Privacy:

Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.

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We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in AI/ML to join the Notebooks team. Datadog Notebooks provide a flexible tool for ad-hoc data analysis, collaborative investigations, and technical documentation. Its fluidity makes it an ideal surface for agents and humans to interact. The Notebook team is building AI-driven workflows for natural-language data analysis, assisted graph generation, automated investigations, and more. You will act as a technical leader in this domain, focused on building industry-leader AI-powered features. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Spearhead AI initiatives within Notebooks, serving as the technical owner for the design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-driven features.
• Shape the long-term technical direction and strategy for AI workflows within Notebooks and related products.
• Champion the full development cycle: from rapid prototyping and defining success metrics/evaluations to running experiments, iterating, and achieving production-ready scale and reliability.
• Drive product direction with a strong user focus, always advocating for the best end-user experience.
• Coordinate with other leaders and product teams interested in leveraging Notebooks in their AI-powered workflows.
• Develop robust agent systems, including tools, retrieval and planning strategies, guardrails, prompt management/evaluations, fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop processes.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, guiding the adoption of new technologies and evolving best-practices.

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead
• Proven track record of leading large-scale AI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment
• You have significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation
• You are passionate about mentoring others and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build

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:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  
  

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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We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team. APM is a product which provides deep visibility into applications, enabling users to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize services. With distributed tracing, profiling, out-of-the-box dashboards, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data, Datadog APM provides some of the deepest and most structured visibility into the health and performance of applications. This context sets us up for an opportunity to be the world leaders in agentic investigations and incident troubleshooting. 

You’ll act as a technical leader within the APM group, focused on agentic workflows. You’ll lead efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Act as a technical leader within the APM organization, driving GenAI/machine learning projects from concept to production.
• Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools.
• Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user.
• Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.
• Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups.

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead
• Proven track record of leading large-scale GenAI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment
• You have significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, or evaluation
• Ability to drive initiatives across cross-functional teams, and solve ambiguous challenges

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:

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
• Competitive global benefits
• Continuous professional development

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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We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in AI/ML to join the Notebooks team. Datadog Notebooks provide a flexible tool for ad-hoc data analysis, collaborative investigations, and technical documentation. Its fluidity makes it an ideal surface for agents and humans to interact. The Notebook team is building AI-driven workflows for natural-language data analysis, assisted graph generation, automated investigations, and more. You will act as a technical leader in this domain, focused on building industry-leader AI-powered features. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.

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 ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Spearhead AI initiatives within Notebooks, serving as the technical owner for the design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-driven features.
• Shape the long-term technical direction and strategy for AI workflows within Notebooks and related products.
• Champion the full development cycle: from rapid prototyping and defining success metrics/evaluations to running experiments, iterating, and achieving production-ready scale and reliability.
• Drive product direction with a strong user focus, always advocating for the best end-user experience.
• Coordinate with other leaders and product teams interested in leveraging Notebooks in their AI-powered workflows.
• Develop robust agent systems, including tools, retrieval and planning strategies, guardrails, prompt management/evaluations, fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop processes.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, guiding the adoption of new technologies and evolving best-practices.

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead
• Proven track record of leading large-scale AI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment
• You have significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation

• You are passionate about mentoring others and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build

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:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  
  

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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