Datadog
Staff Software Engineer- ML Observability
Remote Dev Eng role with clear candidate location fit.
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Eligible countries2 accepted countries
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
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Role overview
Staff Software Engineer- ML Observability
Requirements and responsibilities
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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