Software Engineer - AI Platform

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to design and build this next‑gen platform, partner with Applied AI, product, and core‑infra teams to deliver:

• Large‑scale experimentation, training, deployment, and monitoring
• Developer toolchains for agents and other GenAI applications
• Low‑latency serving infrastructure that plugs AI features into any Datadog product

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable tools and infrastructure to support the efforts of our data scientists (model training & serving infra, CI/CD, orchestration, deployment,...)
• Create a development ecosystem that enables rapid experimentation and deployment of algorithms
• Stay on the cutting edge of development in the MLOps domain and document best practices to share across teams
• Drive the technical growth of Machine Learning as a distributed capability at Datadog, spanning all product areas, as well as leverage DD’s knowledge in observability to contribute back to the MLOps community

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning or a related scientific field or equivalent experience
• You are a software engineer at heart with 5+ years of professional experience in building distributed systems, data science applications, and/or machine learning engineering
• You have proven ability to architect, build, and operate distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale
• You have extensive experience executing projects that span data engineering, data science, and machine learning
• You ship fast, route around blockers, and are comfortable working with ambiguity
• You’re happy to jump into any part of the stack and do whatever’s needed to move a project forward
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.