Staff AI Engineer - Graphing

Datadog; Lyon; Sur place; EUR 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Product training

Career development opportunities

Stock equity (RSUs)

Mental health benefits

Generous global benefits

Résumé du poste

Datadog in Lyon is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance AI-powered experiences across their Data Visualization organization. You will lead the design and delivery of innovative solutions that enrich customer interactions with their tools and dashboards.

The ideal candidate has extensive software engineering experience, is skilled in AI technologies, and actively collaborates across product and engineering teams. Datadog supports career development and offers competitive benefits, including stock equity.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience at or near Staff Engineer scope.
• Hands-on experience delivering production AI-powered products.
• Experience building reliable systems managing model non-determinism.

Responsabilités

• Lead design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences.
• Drive innovation in context engineering and AI application reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the Data Visualization organization.

Connaissances

Software engineering experience

Production AI-powered products

Collaboration across teams

Technical leadership

Outils

LLM technologies

Evaluation frameworks

Testing strategies

Description du poste

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.

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
• Generous global benefits

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.