Senior AI Engineer — Build AI-Powered Workflows

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Professional development

Mentorship program

Inclusive culture

Inclusion Talks

Spring Health benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build AI-assisted workflows for Notebooks, collaborating with Product and Design to own analysis platforms and context discovery. You will design deterministic plus LLM-powered experiences, ensure reliability, and mentor others while deploying backend services that run in customer deployments.

This role is hybrid to support work-life harmony across teams. We value diverse backgrounds and offer opportunities to grow with cutting-edge AI tooling and

Qualifications

• Experience with Go, Python or similar systems programming languages.
• Hands-on experience delivering production AI-powered products and customer-facing experiences.
• Strong product mindset with ability to tie technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences for Notebooks and adjacent surfaces.
• Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes.
• Partner closely with Product to translate customer problems, adoption signals, and roadmap goals into concrete technical decisions and iterations.
• Build experiences that enable company capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices.
• Own production systems: build and operate reliable backend services that run in the critical path of customer deployments, and be on-call for those services.

Skills

Go

Python

LLM-powered systems

Product mindset

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build AI-assisted workflows for Notebooks, collaborating with Product and Design to own analysis platforms and context discovery. You will design deterministic plus LLM-powered experiences, ensure reliability, and mentor others while deploying backend services that run in customer deployments.

This role is hybrid to support work-life harmony across teams. We value diverse backgrounds and offer opportunities to grow with cutting-edge AI tooling and