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Senior Software Engineer- AI (EMEA)

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  • Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences across Datadog’s visualization and investigation surfaces.
  • Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes.
  • Drive innovation in context engineering, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and AI application reliability.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to improve investigation workflows and help customers discover insights more efficiently.
  • Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices across the Data Visualization organization and broader Graphing group.
  • You have extensive software engineering experience and currently operate at or near Staff Engineer scope.
  • You have hands-on experience delivering production AI-powered products and customer-facing experiences using LLM technologies.
  • You have experience building reliable systems that manage model non-determinism through evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, and operational excellence.
  • You approach engineering through a product mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact.
  • You have experience collaborating across multiple teams and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
  • Experience with agentic systems, conversational interfaces, AI-assisted investigations, observability, data visualization, or developer tools is a plus.
  • 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
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