The REDAPL organization is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to oversee our Resource Graph team. REDAPL is Datadog’s main platform for tracking our customers’ infrastructure resources and relationships. REDAPL Resource Graph also plays a key role in serving Datadog’s Security products.

This position will play a critical role in driving the future of our data infrastructure and ensuring the highest level of performance and reliability for our systems. As the team is also quickly growing, you will also be involved in hiring the best candidates for this 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:

• Strategic Leadership: Drive the vision and strategy for the teams, ensuring alignment with the overall goals.
• Team Oversight: Provide guidance and support to the ICs in the team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
• Technical Excellence: Ensure the teams maintain high standards of code quality, performance, and reliability across all systems and services.
• Innovation and Improvement: Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement within the datastore and serving domains, promoting best practices and new technologies.
• Talent Management: Lead hiring efforts to attract and retain top talent, ensuring the growth and development of team members through mentoring and professional development opportunities.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with other teams and stakeholders to align on priorities, address challenges, and deliver high-impact solutions.
  
  

Who You Are: 

• You have proven experience managing teams that shipped and operated business-critical systems.
• You have demonstrated ability in designing, building, and operating distributed systems to solve problems at scale.
• You have experience working with Graph Databases such as Neo4j, Memgraph, JanusGraph, ArangoDB, Amazon Neptune or PuppyGraph.
• Managed a team for over 2 years.
• You are an excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work effectively through complex technical problems with a diverse group of stakeholders.
• You are comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, able to adapt strategies and solutions in response to emerging challenges and opportunities.
• Skilled in setting team goals and prioritizing features that align with business needs.
• Effective at giving and receiving feedback, enhancing the work environment and team collaborations.
• Possess excellent teamwork, communication, and technical problem-solving skills to contribute to multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated leadership in guiding teams through the full design process from concept to launch, with minimal oversight.
• Maintain a growth mindset, actively seeking learning opportunities and new challenges.
• Able to clearly articulate design decisions and strategies 
• Proven ability to envision long-term goals and focus efforts to achieve them.
• Efficient in optimizing team workflows and processes to enhance team output and collaboration.
• Known for balancing fast iteration, strategic ambiguity, and high-quality outcomes in a dynamic business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus points: 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

Location: Portugal

Department: Engineering

Employment: Full time

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.

About the role:

As a Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

About you:

A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highly skilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others.

You’ll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects in terms of the product and methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a test-first mindset (actually, writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review.

You have a real passion for problem-solving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

• Crafting excellent products! As an AI Engineer, you will be building new AI-powered features that meet the needs of our clients' customers, as well as improving their Digital Platform with intelligent capabilities;
• Continuously delivering changes to products including AI model integrations, prompt optimisations, and system improvements, as we push for a full CI/CD model;
• Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating on both traditional engineering and AI initiatives, to continually push yourselves to build better, smarter systems;
• Participating in regular show and tells to promote your work — from AI experiments to production deployments — to both your department and the wider company;
• Joining our clients’ internal events, including meeting external speakers, going to quiz nights, etc.

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

Core Programming & AI

• Proven strong experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
• Advanced GenAI/LLM expertise: RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, evals, guardrails, caching, chaining, function calling, etc
• Fine-tuning expertise: LoRA/QLoRA, instruction tuning, RLHF, domain adaptation, and custom model training
• Agentic architecture design: multi-agent systems, tool orchestration, planning/reasoning frameworks, memory systems, and agent coordination patterns
• Eval systems: automated evals, human feedback loops, benchmarking, A/B testing, safety testing, hallucination detection, and performance metrics
• Experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, LiteLLM, CrewAI, Mastra, etc) and API integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)

Infrastructure & DevOps

• CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for GenAI workloads and API management
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) for AI applications
• LLM hosting and inference optimisation (vLLM, TGI, local deployment)

Data & Databases

• Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, Qdrant) and traditional databases (PostgreSQL, Neo4j)
• Data pipeline design for RAG and knowledge ingestion
• Real-time data streaming and processing
• Document processing and embedding generation workflows

Frontend & APIs

• React or modern UI frameworks
• API design for LLM services and conversational interfaces
• Multiple protocols (HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, MCP)
• Real-time chat and streaming response handling

Performance & Reliability

• Building high-performance, scalable AI applications
• LLM cost optimisation, token management, and caching strategies
• Performance monitoring, observability, and debugging production AI systems
• Comprehensive testing: unit, integration, AI behaviour, security, accessibility

You’ll be:

• Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
• Detail oriented;
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Comfortable with experimentation, iteration, and managing uncertainty in AI systems;
• Analytical and problem-solving oriented;
• Ethical thinker who considers the broader implications of AI implementations;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people, you’ll also get:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• €2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• €300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Wellbeing & Performance Support via Oli including Therapy and Coaching
• Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also offer a remote-first working environment, meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.