Datadog

Datadog is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our anomaly detection platform. Our team builds and operates high-scale distributed systems that process streaming and batch data, working alongside machine learning systems to automatically identify potential issues in our customers' environments. As we expand these capabilities across Datadog's products, you'll play a key role in defining the technical direction, evolving our architecture, and building systems that surface meaningful insights to customers without requiring manual configuration. This is an opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges at scale while influencing the direction of a platform that powers critical customer experiences.
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 architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed systems that power automated anomaly detection across Datadog's platform.</li>
<li>Design and improve high-throughput streaming and batch processing pipelines, enabling timely and reliable detection of potential issues in customer environments.</li>
<li>Drive technical initiatives to simplify, consolidate, and modernize existing systems, improving scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.</li>
<li>Partner with engineering leaders, product managers, and data scientists to define the long-term technical strategy for anomaly detection and its integration with alerting capabilities.</li>
<li>Shape how anomaly detection capabilities are delivered across Datadog products, helping customers identify meaningful issues without requiring manual configuration.</li>
<li>Provide technical leadership across engineering teams, influencing architectural decisions and aligning solutions with broader product and platform goals.</li>
</ul>
Who You Are:
<ul>
<li>You have extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, particularly high-throughput or data-intensive backend platforms.</li>
<li>You have a strong understanding of streaming and batch processing architectures, including the challenges of processing large volumes of data with low latency.</li>
<li>You have experience leading complex architectural initiatives, making technical tradeoffs, and improving the reliability and maintainability of production systems.</li>
<li>You can drive technical strategy beyond your immediate team, collaborating with engineering leaders and product partners to translate customer needs into scalable platform solutions.</li>
<li>You are comfortable working across technologies and learning new systems; experience with technologies such as Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, Go, or Python is a plus.</li>
<li>You bring a product-oriented mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer outcomes; familiarity with machine learning systems or deploying models in production is a plus, but not required.</li>
</ul>
Benefits and Growth:
<ul>
<li>Opportunities to grow as a technical leader while influencing the architecture and direction of shared capabilities used across Datadog products.</li>
<li>Exposure to complex engineering challenges involving large-scale distributed systems, real-time data processing, and machine learning.</li>
<li>Collaboration with experienced engineers, product managers, and data scientists across multiple teams.</li>
<li>Opportunities to develop expertise in platform architecture, technical strategy, and cross-functional engineering leadership.</li>
<li>A collaborative engineering environment that encourages knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and professional development.</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><div><div>Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.</div><div>The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:</div><div>$244,000—$305,000 USD</div></div></div><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>

Staff Software Engineer - Watchdog Anomaly Detection

<a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky/" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Husky</a> is what we call the distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store at the heart of our Event Platform, which powers dozens of Datadog’s most popular products – Logs, RUM, APM, Cloud Network Monitoring, Netflow, and many more. Husky was built from the ground up at Datadog to store and query massive volumes of event data at low cost, with data fully queryable within seconds of arrival.
 
As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll work hands-on with a distributed storage system at petabyte scale, and help us evolve our platform to support the next level of scale that will power the AI era. We will move from a custom storage format towards open standards (Parquet, Arrow, DataFusion) enabling on prem solutions, increasingly complex analytical/batch workloads, and powering AI observability, sustainably into the future. You'll partner closely with Husky Ingestion, Metadata, and Platform, and increasingly with Lakehouse on the Iceberg-compatible boundary between Husky and analytical/batch workloads. You will also work with the open source community to  build the next generation of reusable software solutions that can be operated at scale.
 
Datadog has a culture that is increasingly rare in mature technology companies. We are an engineering driven, bottom up, high agency/high responsibility culture–where everyone is empowered and expected to drive the technological and strategic direction of the business over time. We are a blameless culture where we believe supporting each other through challenges produces the best outcomes over time and our track record corroborates this. We are open source champions. We believe in the flexibility of working remotely but also the value of bringing people together across our various offices worldwide–and our offices are nice places to work.
 
What You’ll Do: 
<ul>
<li>Drive Husky to the next level of adoption by migrating our storage format to open source Parquet and re-imagine <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/husky-storage-compaction/" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">compaction</a> on a format-agnostic, DataFusion-based substrate</li>
<li>Drive concrete cost-reduction work: block-level inverted index compression, combining the database with external objects at the row level, and storage tiering/caching</li>
<li>Scale our solution to enable customers to manage event versioning at scale, using temporal-database techniques.</li>
<li>Play an influential role in operating and deciding how to best operate our service going forward.</li>
<li>Work across the write path (with Ingestion) and toward a cleaner Iceberg-based handoff to ADP/Lakehouse for batch/analytical workloads</li>
</ul>
 
Who You Are: 
<ul>
<li>Enthusiastic and experienced with large-scale distributed systems and/or storage engines</li>
<li>Comfortable with improving and operating large distributed systems that customers rely on for critical business functions</li>
<li>Strong fundamentals in columnar/file storage formats (Parquet, ORC, Arrow) or comparable systems</li>
<li>Bonus: experience with Go, Java, or Rust; with compaction or compression/encoding schemes (RLE, dictionary, delta, gorilla); with object storage (S3/GCS/Azure Blob) at scale, including caching and cost optimization; with Kafka and stream processing; or with Kubernetes</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>Intradepartmental 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>Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+</li>
</ul>
 Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.<div><div><div>Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.</div><div>The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:</div><div>$192,000—$240,000 USD</div></div></div><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 Software Engineer - Husky Storage

As organizations move AI agents from experimentation into production, engineering teams need to understand whether those agents are accurate, reliable, performant, and cost-effective. Datadog Agent Observability helps teams understand, evaluate, and improve AI agents across the development lifecycle. By connecting agent traces and evaluations with full-stack production telemetry, Datadog gives teams the context they need to understand agent behavior and resolve problems quickly.
As the Product Manager for Agent Observability, you will own capabilities that help customers develop and operate reliable AI agents. You will spend significant time with customers, learn how they work, identify their most important problems, and translate those insights into a clear product strategy and roadmap. To succeed in this role, you should be comfortable navigating a rapidly evolving market, presenting to customers, and leading cross-functional efforts to drive adoption and growth.
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>Own the roadmap for new Agent Observability capabilities</li>
<li>Develop a deep understanding of how teams build, evaluate, monitor, and troubleshoot AI agents</li>
<li>Engage directly with customers and design partners to validate problems, test product concepts, and improve the product</li>
<li>Work closely with engineering and design to deliver new capabilities from early concepts through launch and iteration</li>
<li>Partner with GTM teams on positioning, sales enablement, customer education, and adoption</li>
<li>Track developments across the broader AI ecosystem to guide priorities </li>
</ul>
Who You Are
<ul>
<li>3+ years of PM experience, ideally in the AI/ML space</li>
<li>Working knowledge of how AI agents are built and operated, or have hands-on experience with AI Observability or MLOps tooling</li>
<li>Take ownership of outcomes and have a strong bias for action</li>
<li>0 to 1 experience is preferred</li>
</ul>
 
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>
Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
</li>
<li>
Intradepartmental 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>
Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
</li>
<li>
Competitive global benefits and giving programs
</li>
</ul>
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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. <div><div><div>Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.</div><div>The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:</div><div>$156,000—$195,000 USD</div></div></div><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>

Product Manager II - Agent Observability

As a Staff Research Scientist within Datadog AI Research (DAIR), you will drive research in post-training and autonomous agents as a hands-on individual contributor. You will advance reinforcement learning, simulated environments, synthetic data generation, and evaluation methods for agents operating across complex real-world systems. You will set the technical direction for ambitious research programs, raise the technical bar for the researchers and research engineers around you, and collaborate with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products. 
 
What You'll Do: 
<ul>
<li>Drive research in agent post-training and reinforcement learning, shaping the technical direction of ambitious research programs grounded in observability and security</li>
<li>Own research problems end to end, from framing the question through experimentation, model development, and evaluation</li>
<li>Design and advance reinforcement learning approaches, post-training methods, and training loops for agents operating in complex environments</li>
<li>Build simulated environments, synthetic data generation approaches, and evaluation frameworks that enable scalable agent training and rigorous measurement</li>
<li>Raise the technical bar across the team by reviewing research directions, mentoring researchers and research engineers, and setting standards for experimental rigor</li>
<li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Research, Product, and Engineering to translate advances in autonomous agents into scalable Datadog capabilities</li>
<li>Contribute to research publications, present at top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML, and help open-source key model artifacts and benchmarks</li>
</ul>
 
Who You Are: 
<ul>
<li>You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or have equivalent experience, with deep expertise in areas such as reinforcement learning, AI agents, post-training, or generative modeling</li>
<li>You have driven technically ambitious research at meaningful scale as an individual contributor, whether in an industry research lab, startup, academic environment, or another research setting</li>
<li>You have extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing reinforcement learning systems, agent training methods, simulated environments, synthetic data pipelines, or evaluation frameworks</li>
<li>You have a track record of research impact through influential publications, significant model or system contributions, widely used research artifacts, or equivalent technical achievements</li>
<li>You set technical direction through influence rather than authority, and you have mentored other researchers or engineers and elevated the quality of work around you</li>
<li>You want to stay deeply hands-on in research for the long term, and you can communicate complex research findings effectively across technical and non-technical audiences</li>
</ul>
 
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
 
About Datadog: 
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
 
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
 
Your Privacy:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
 <div><div><div>Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.</div><div>The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:</div><div>$320,000—$400,000 USD</div></div></div><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>

Staff Research Scientist - Post-Training for Agents

As a Staff Research Scientist within Datadog AI Research (DAIR), you will drive research in foundation models and world models as a hands-on individual contributor. You will advance large-scale pre-training and multimodal learning across the diverse signals generated by distributed systems, including metrics, traces, logs, topology, and events. You will set the technical direction for ambitious research programs, raise the technical bar for the researchers and research engineers around you, and collaborate with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products. 
 
What You'll Do: 
<ul>
<li>Drive research in foundation models, world models, and multimodal learning, shaping the technical direction of ambitious research programs grounded in observability</li>
<li>Own research problems end to end, from framing the question through experimentation, model development, and evaluation</li>
<li>Train large-scale multimodal models on diverse telemetry data, including metrics, logs, traces, topology, events, and other non-text modalities</li>
<li>Advance approaches to pre-training, representation learning, world modeling, scaling, and evaluation for models that learn the dynamics of complex distributed systems</li>
<li>Raise the technical bar across the team by reviewing research directions, mentoring researchers and research engineers, and setting standards for experimental rigor</li>
<li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Research, Product, and Engineering to translate research advances into scalable Datadog capabilities</li>
<li>Contribute to research publications, present at top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML, and help open-source key model artifacts and benchmarks</li>
</ul>
 
Who You Are: 
<ul>
<li>You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or have equivalent experience, with deep expertise in areas such as foundation models, world models, multimodal learning, or generative modeling</li>
<li>You have driven technically ambitious research at meaningful scale as an individual contributor, whether in an industry research lab, startup, academic environment, or another research setting</li>
<li>You have extensive hands-on experience designing, training, and evaluating large-scale deep learning models (such as large language models), with experience in multimodal or non-text data considered a strong plus</li>
<li>You have a track record of research impact through influential publications, significant model or system contributions, widely used research artifacts, or equivalent technical achievements</li>
<li>You set technical direction through influence rather than authority, and you have mentored other researchers or engineers and elevated the quality of work around you</li>
<li>You want to stay deeply hands-on in research for the long term, and you can communicate complex research findings effectively across technical and non-technical audiences</li>
</ul>
 
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
 
About Datadog: 
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
 
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
 
Your Privacy:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
 <div><div><div>Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.</div><div>The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:</div><div>$320,000—$400,000 USD</div></div></div><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>
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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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