Datadog

As a Staff Engineer on the Data Platform Experience team, you'll help shape how Datadog engineering teams build, operate, and evolve products on the Observability Data Platform. You'll lead the design and delivery of shared platform capabilities that reduce developer friction, improve operational visibility, and enable engineering teams to move faster with confidence. This role combines deep distributed systems expertise with technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing platform strategy while remaining hands-on in the code. You'll have the opportunity to solve company-wide challenges spanning cost intelligence, operational tooling, platform health, and developer experience.
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:
<ul>
<li>Lead strategic engineering initiatives that improve how product teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform.</li>
<li>Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cost intelligence, including cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations.</li>
<li>Develop operational intelligence and self-service tooling that helps engineering teams understand platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational efficiency.</li>
<li>Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity across multiple products.</li>
<li>Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards through hands-on technical contributions.</li>
<li>Participate in the team's on-call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence.</li>
</ul>
Who You Are:
<ul>
<li>You have experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms with deep expertise in distributed systems.</li>
<li>You have strong software architecture and system design skills and have successfully led complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.</li>
<li>You have a platform engineering mindset and enjoy building reusable capabilities that enable other engineering organizations to move faster.</li>
<li>You are an effective communicator who can influence technical direction without direct authority and collaborate across organizational boundaries.</li>
<li>You have experience with backend technologies such as Java and Go, and distributed infrastructure including Kafka and Kubernetes</li>
<li>Experience with observability platforms, internal developer platforms, operational tooling, developer productivity solutions, or AI-powered engineering workflows is beneficial but not required.</li>
</ul>
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know 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 experience, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
<ul>
<li>Generous and competitive benefits package</li>
<li>New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan</li>
<li>Continuous career development and pathing opportunities</li>
<li>Employee-focused best in class onboarding</li>
<li>Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program</li>
<li>Friendly and inclusive workplace culture</li>
</ul>
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: 
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/datadoghq/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">LinkedIn,</a> and <a href="https://learn.datadoghq.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Datadog Learning Center. </a>
<hr />
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">equal employment opportunity</a> to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/candidate-legal-notices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Candidate Legal Notices</a> for your reference. 
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoJeduEZ2NdZF_65uZmWUrCM-zee7yADXX1s6Xr9zAGq8iKA/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">this form</a>. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications. 
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/applicant-candidate-privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice</a>. For information on our AI policy, please visit <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/interviewing-at-datadog-ai-guidelines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines</a>.</div>

Staff Engineer - Data Platform Experience

Datadog Notebooks provide customers with a collaborative surface for ad-hoc data analysis, technical documentation, incident postmortems and runbooks. The power and flexibility of Notebooks also makes it the perfect place to integrate AI tools that can augment user workflows. Our vision is that in Notebooks users can collaborate with each other and with AI agents seamlessly.
We are looking for a product-oriented Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI-assisted workflows that are becoming central to how customers use Notebooks. In this role you will work closely with product and design, and own platforms for analysis workflows and context discovery. There is a real opportunity for impact here: turning Notebooks into the tool that helps customers go from uncertainty to answer, and making that knowledge retrievable and reusable across Datadog products.
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.
<h2>What You’ll Do</h2>
<ul>
<li>Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences for Notebooks and adjacent surfaces</li>
<li>Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments</li>
<li>Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices</li>
<li>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</li>
</ul>
<h2>Who You Are</h2>
<ul>
<li>You have experience with Go, Python or similar systems programming languages</li>
<li>You have 6+ years of relevant engineering experience</li>
<li>You have hands-on experience delivering production AI-powered products and customer-facing experiences using LLM technologies.</li>
<li>You approach engineering through a strong product mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact.</li>
<li>You have experience building reliable systems that manage model non-determinism through evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, and operational excellence</li>
</ul>
 
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:
<ul>
<li>New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)</li>
<li>Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing</li>
<li>Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking</li>
<li>An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds</li>
<li>Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions</li>
<li>Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+</li>
<li>Competitive global benefits</li>
</ul>
 Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
#LI-Hybrid<div><hr />
About Datadog: 
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/datadoghq/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">LinkedIn,</a> and <a href="https://learn.datadoghq.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Datadog Learning Center. </a>
<hr />
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">equal employment opportunity</a> to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/candidate-legal-notices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Candidate Legal Notices</a> for your reference. 
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoJeduEZ2NdZF_65uZmWUrCM-zee7yADXX1s6Xr9zAGq8iKA/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">this form</a>. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications. 
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/applicant-candidate-privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice</a>. For information on our AI policy, please visit <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/interviewing-at-datadog-ai-guidelines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines</a>.</div>

Senior AI Engineer – Notebooks

The Behavior AI team builds the AI-based anomaly detection behind Datadog's security products. Our models learn what normal looks like across the billions of logs, events, and telemetry records flowing through the platform every second, and they flag the behavior that does not fit, on every record, in real time, at a cost that makes sense at our scale. What we build does not ship to a single feature. The same models power detection across many of Datadog's security products at once, so the work has impact well beyond any one team. Large general-purpose models are too slow and too expensive to run in that path, so we take the opposite approach: small, custom models, designed for high-throughput stream processing and optimized to run cheaply on every record.
 
We are hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to build these models from start to finish. You will contribute to designing the architecture, training at scale, and the optimization work that takes a model from training to running efficiently on production traffic. This optimization requires a deep understanding of the constraints imposed by both the software and the hardware, together with the applied mathematics to work within them: often it comes down to finding a mathematical reformulation that fits those constraints better, and that judgment can decide whether a model reaches production at all.
 
The work involves a number of open questions. How do you obtain most of the quality of a large model from one that is far smaller and cheap enough to run on the full stream? Where is it worth trading exactness for speed, and how do you reason about the error you accept? How do you make a small model's outputs clear enough that the detection engineers and analysts who rely on it can trust what it reports? If these are the problems you want to work on, we would like to hear from you.
 
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:
 
<ul>
<li>Design and build custom mid-size models for high-throughput stream processing, and train them at scale.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Optimize these models from start to finish, working across both the mathematics and the systems, often by finding mathematical reformulations that fit the hardware and software constraints better.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Build the training data pipelines the work depends on when they do not already exist, from the raw stream to a training-ready dataset.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Work with engineering to integrate models into production, with a clear focus on GPU utilization, latency, and cost per record on live traffic.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Plan the roadmap of model and system improvements, based on a solid understanding of the product and of what matters most to users.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Build an agentic layer on top of the models to analyze, validate, and act on their outputs.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Build lightweight interpretability tools that make model behavior easier to explain to the people who rely on it.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Maintain and monitor the models, services, and infrastructure your team owns, and take part in your team's on-call rotation.</li>
</ul>
 
Who You Are:
 
<ul>
<li>You have a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or a related scientific field, or equivalent experience.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>You have hands-on experience training and fine-tuning models at scale, and deploying them into production systems with real throughput and cost constraints.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>You have a working knowledge of how GPUs work, and a track record of making models run efficiently within real hardware constraints.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>You have strong applied-mathematics fundamentals and reach for them naturally when designing and optimizing models.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>You have a real passion for applied mathematics, software design, and implementation. This role sits at the intersection of the three, and it is a requirement for the position.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>You care about code simplicity and performance, and you can build the data pipelines and the surrounding production code, in addition to the models themselves.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>You can explain complex ideas and trade-offs clearly to engineers and product partners, and you let a solid understanding of the product guide what you build next.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Bonus: experience with efficient sequence architectures, model interpretability, or large-scale streaming systems.</li>
</ul>
 
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:
 
<ul>
<li>New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)</li>
<li>Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing</li>
<li>Opportunity to attend and present at conferences and meetups, and to publish your work</li>
<li>Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking</li>
<li>An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)</li>
<li>Competitive global benefits</li>
</ul>
 
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<div><hr />
About Datadog: 
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/datadoghq/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">LinkedIn,</a> and <a href="https://learn.datadoghq.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Datadog Learning Center. </a>
<hr />
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">equal employment opportunity</a> to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/candidate-legal-notices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Candidate Legal Notices</a> for your reference. 
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoJeduEZ2NdZF_65uZmWUrCM-zee7yADXX1s6Xr9zAGq8iKA/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">this form</a>. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications. 
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/applicant-candidate-privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice</a>. For information on our AI policy, please visit <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/interviewing-at-datadog-ai-guidelines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines</a>.</div>

Senior Applied Scientist - Behavior AI

This role will join Datadog’s Data Visualization organization, a team responsible for the visualization experiences that power dashboards, notebooks, investigations, and product workflows used across the platform. The team is a highly product-oriented organization, building AI-native experiences that help customers understand, investigate, and interact with complex operational data. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership in applying AI technologies to customer-facing product experiences, helping shape how users interact with Datadog through agents, conversational interfaces, and intelligent investigation workflows. You will partner across engineering and product teams to develop reliable, scalable, and trustworthy AI-powered experiences while helping establish AI engineering expertise within the broader organization.
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:
<ul>
<li>Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences across Datadog’s visualization and investigation surfaces.</li>
<li>Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes.</li>
<li>Drive innovation in context engineering, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and AI application reliability.</li>
<li>Partner with product and engineering teams to improve investigation workflows and help customers discover insights more efficiently.</li>
<li>Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments.</li>
<li>Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices across the Data Visualization organization and broader Graphing group.</li>
</ul>
 
Who You Are:
<ul>
<li>You have extensive software engineering experience and currently operate at or near Staff Engineer scope.</li>
<li>You have hands-on experience delivering production AI-powered products and customer-facing experiences using LLM technologies.</li>
<li>You have experience building reliable systems that manage model non-determinism through evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, and operational excellence.</li>
<li>You approach engineering through a product mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact.</li>
<li>You have experience collaborating across multiple teams and influencing technical direction without direct authority.</li>
<li>Experience with agentic systems, conversational interfaces, AI-assisted investigations, observability, data visualization, or developer tools is a plus.</li>
</ul>
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know 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 experience, we encourage you to apply.
 
Benefits and Growth:
<ul>
<li>Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space</li>
<li>Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility </li>
<li>Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking </li>
<li>An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds</li>
<li>New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan</li>
<li>Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health </li>
<li>Generous global benefits</li>
</ul>
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
#LI-Hybrid<div><hr />
About Datadog: 
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/datadoghq/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">LinkedIn,</a> and <a href="https://learn.datadoghq.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Datadog Learning Center. </a>
<hr />
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">equal employment opportunity</a> to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/candidate-legal-notices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Candidate Legal Notices</a> for your reference. 
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoJeduEZ2NdZF_65uZmWUrCM-zee7yADXX1s6Xr9zAGq8iKA/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">this form</a>. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications. 
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/applicant-candidate-privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice</a>. For information on our AI policy, please visit <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/interviewing-at-datadog-ai-guidelines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines</a>.</div>

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