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Datadog is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences for Notebooks, a collaborative platform for ad-hoc data analysis, technical documentation, incident postmortems, and runbooks. In this role, you will work closely with product and design teams to build AI-assisted workflows that help customers transition from uncertainty to actionable insights.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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 the Product Manager to translate customer problems, adoption signals, and roadmap goals into concrete technical decisions and iterations
- Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while establishing AI engineering best practices
- Own production systems: build and operate reliable backend services in the critical path of customer deployments, with on-call responsibilities
You bring 6+ years of relevant engineering experience with proficiency in Go, Python, or similar systems programming languages. You have hands-on experience delivering production AI-powered products and customer-facing experiences using LLM technologies. You approach engineering through a strong product mindset, connecting technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact. You have experience building reliable systems that manage model non-determinism through evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, and operational excellence.
Datadog values continuous professional development, offers new hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), intra-departmental mentoring, inclusive company culture with community guilds, and competitive global benefits including Spring Health.
