Senior AI Engineer
Core
Building AI-assisted tools (LLM-based agents) to autonomously generate tests, fix bugs, and improve performance for Datadog developers.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM agents
Builds
Production-ready LLM agents, IDE extensions, and dynamic instrumentation tools for Datadog's observability platform
Domain
Observability, Software Engineering, Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Backend engineering (Go, Java, Python), LLM productionization, large-scale systems, developer tooling (IDEs, compilers), AI coding tool validation
Preferred skills
Prompt engineering, agent tooling, code editing, community ambassadorship
Technologies
LLMs, Large-scale systems, Datadog IDE extensions, Dynamic Instrumentation
Responsibilities
Collaborate with users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on LLM-based agents; Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for code; Prototype, iterate with users, and ship features; Follow latest research on LLM prompting and agents; Integrate with Datadog products like IDE extensions and Dynamic Instrumentation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
