Staff AI Engineer - Data Visualization

Datadog; France; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan

Global mental health benefit

Job summary

Datadog, located in France, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead AI-powered product experiences within the Data Visualization organization. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop reliable and scalable AI-driven solutions that enhance customer interactions.

This role values a hybrid workplace culture, promoting work-life harmony and continuous career growth through mentoring and internal mobility opportunities. Join us in shaping how users interact with complex operational data.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience, ideally at Staff Engineer level.
• Hands-on experience with AI-powered customer-facing products.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences.
• Develop systems integrating product capabilities with LLM technologies.
• Drive innovation in AI application reliability and context engineering.

Skills

Software engineering experience

AI-powered product delivery

Collaboration across teams

Understanding of LLM technologies

Product-oriented mindset

Tools

Evaluation frameworks

Conversational interfaces

Job description

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:

• Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences across Datadog’s visualization and investigation surfaces.
• Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes.
• Drive innovation in context engineering, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and AI application reliability.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to improve investigation workflows and help customers discover insights more efficiently.
• Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices across the Data Visualization organization and broader Graphing group.

Who You Are:

• You have extensive software engineering experience and currently operate at or near Staff Engineer scope.
• You have hands‑on experience delivering production AI-powered products and customer-facing experiences using LLM technologies.
• You have experience building reliable systems that manage model non-determinism through evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, and operational excellence.
• You approach engineering through a product mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact.
• You have experience collaborating across multiple teams and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
• Experience with agentic systems, conversational interfaces, AI-assisted investigations, observability, data visualization, or developer tools is a plus.

Benefits and Growth:

• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog 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 other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.