Senior AI Engineer - APM Experiences
DatadogNew York, New York, United States
Posted November 21, 2025
187000 - 240000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Datadog 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.
Job Description
Senior AI Engineer position at Datadog's APM Experiences team. Opportunity to lead end-to-end development of AI-powered capabilities for Application Performance Monitoring, including distributed tracing, service representation, and more. Collaborate with PM, Design, and partner teams to build cohesive experiences.
Requirements
- 4+ years building backend or real-time ML systems
- Experience delivering LLM/agent features to production
- Comfortable owning user journeys and iterating from prototype â alpha â GA
- Strong ML / applied science fundamentals
- Solid grasp of the ML lifecycle and statistics
- Experience choosing/modeling the right technique for the job
- Fluency with offline/online evals for AI systems
- 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
Benefits
- Competitive global benefits
- Continuous professional development
- Competitive salary and equity package
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan