Staff AI Engineer - Graphing

Datadog; Nice; Sur place; EUR 75 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Product training

Career development opportunities

Employee stock purchase plan

Mental health benefits

Inclusive company culture

Résumé du poste

Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Data Visualization organization. This role focuses on designing AI-powered experiences across Datadog’s platform, collaborating with engineers and product teams.

Ideal candidates will have extensive software engineering and AI product delivery experience. Datadog promotes a hybrid workplace to enhance work-life balance and offers strong career development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience with a focus on AI technologies.
• Hands-on experience with LLM technologies for customer-facing products.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes.

Responsabilités

• Design and deliver AI-powered product experiences.
• Develop systems combining deterministic and LLM-powered experiences.
• Drive innovation in AI application reliability.

Connaissances

Software engineering experience

Production AI-powered products

Collaborative influencing

Agentic systems experience

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.

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.
• Generous global benefits.

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 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.

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