Senior AI Engineer - APM Experiences

Datadog’s APM Experiences team owns the core product experience for Application Performance Monitoring — including distributed tracing service representation and more. We’re building a new wave of AI-powered capabilities that help customers detect resolve and prevent performance issues faster. In this role you will lead end‑to‑end development of LLM- and Agent‑based features that can:

• Debug and investigate application performance issues down to the root cause as both a developer assistant and a fully autonomous agent
• Proactively recommend performance and reliability-based optimizations to prevent the next incident
• Automatically create intelligent monitors and SLOs for the most important business flows and critical paths

This is a highly product‑minded engineering role: you’ll work from problem discovery and UX all the way to reliable scalable production systems.

• Shape AI experiences for APM. Design and ship LLM/agentic workflows that analyze traces metrics logs and other telemetry to generate diagnoses explanations and guided fixes.
• Own the full loop. Prototype quickly define success metrics and evals run experiments iterate and ultimately productionize for scale and reliability.
• Build robust agent systems. Develop tools retrieval and planning strategies and guardrails; manage prompts/evals; design fallbacks and human‑in‑the‑loop paths.
• Integrate with Datadog’s platform. Leverage surfaces like Trace Explorer Service Catalog monitors and workflows to deliver end‑to‑end value in the APM UI.
• Partner deeply. Collaborate with PM Design and partner teams to build cohesive experiences.
• Raise the bar on engineering. Write performant maintainable backend code own services in production and improve reliability for high‑throughput low‑latency data systems.

Product‑minded engineer who ships AI to production

• 4+ years building backend or real-time ML systems; you value simplicity correctness and performance
• Proven experience delivering LLM/agent features to production (prompting tooling evals safety/guardrails)
• Comfortable owning user journeys iterating from prototype → alpha → GA and measuring impact with clear product metrics
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate critique and refine AI-generated output
• You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

Strong ML / applied science fundamentals

• Solid grasp of the ML lifecycle (task definition dataset collection modeling evaluation deployment iteration) and statistics (experiment design confidence intervals)
• Experience choosing/modeling the right technique for the job (e.g. anomaly detection ranking/recommendation NLP) and knowing when a heuristic beats a model
• Fluency with offline/online evals for AI systems; can build reliable golden sets and automatic regressions

Distributed systems & observability savvy

• Experience with microservices performance: tracing latency breakdowns concurrency and resiliency patterns
• Proficient in Go Java or Python; strong API/service design; production ops (monitoring alerting on‑call rotation)

Nice to have

• Hands‑on with distributed tracing stacks (OpenTelemetry/Datadog APM) profilers and logs/metrics pipelines
• Exposure to planning/agent frameworks tool‑use orchestration RAG and retrieval/indexing for observability data
• Familiarity with SLO/SLA practices and incident response

• 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.
  

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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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.

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