Senior Software Engineer (AI)

Details

• 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.
• 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
• 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