Staff GenAI Engineer
Job description
About the role
<p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team. APM is a product which provides deep visibility into applications, enabling users to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize services. With distributed tracing, profiling, out-of-the-box dashboards, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data, Datadog APM provides some of the deepest and most structured visibility into the health and performance of applications. This context sets us up for an opportunity to be the world leaders in agentic investigations and incident troubleshooting.</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You'll act as a technical leader within the APM group, focused on agentic workflows. The listing location is New York, New York, USA.
Key facts
What you'll do
- <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team.
- APM is a product which provides deep visibility into applications, enabling users to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize services.
- With distributed tracing, profiling, out-of-the-box dashboards, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data, Datadog APM provides some of the deepest and most structured visibility into the health and performance of applications.
- This context sets us up for an opportunity to be the world leaders in agentic investigations and incident troubleshooting.</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You'll act as a technical leader within the APM group, focused on agentic workflows.
- You'll lead efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale.
- We're looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><em data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="em">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.</em></p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">&nbsp;</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Act as a technical leader within the APM organization, driving GenAI/machine learning projects from concept to production.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups.</li> </ul> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">&nbsp;</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-n
Requirements
- <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team.
- We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.</em></p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">&nbsp;</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Act as a technical leader within the APM organization, driving GenAI/machine learning projects from concept to production.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups.</li> </ul> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">&nbsp;</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead</li> <li data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-n
About Datadog
Datadog delivers an observability service for cloud-scale applications. Teams use the platform to monitor servers, databases, tools, and services through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. Roles span product, engineering, design, and operations.
Collaboration happens across teams that build and support the platform. You contribute to feature development, reliability, and usability. The company maintains a publicly traded listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Software engineering work usually means turning product intent into systems that run in production. Engineers write and review code, break large changes into reviewable pieces, and watch how those changes behave after they ship. Most teams share on-call or incident habits so outages get a clear owner. Collaboration with product and design is part of the job, not an extra. The duties above are the ones this listing actually states for this opening.
About the location
The posting places this role in New York, New York, USA. Local hiring markets vary in interview pace and compensation bands. Location copy is here so readers understand the geography attached to the title.