Datadog
Enterprise · Observability
- HQ
- New York, US
- Founded
- 2010
- Size
- 7,000+
- Funding
- Public (DDOG)
- Website
- datadoghq.com
- Blog
- datadoghq.com
Products
Datadog has 43 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 58%, are focused on agents. Engineering is the dominant function, with a significant number of roles also in Product and Research. The company is actively hiring in the United States and France. Frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, evals, and model serving, suggesting a focus on building and deploying AI agents.
Enterprise · Observability
Currently tracking 35 active AI roles, with 87 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $155k–$385k (avg $242k).
Datadog currently has 43 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Research Engineer - Datadog AI Research (DAIR) (2), Senior Software Engineer (AI) (2), AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR), AI Research Scientist – Datadog AI Research (DAIR), Director, Product Management - AI Observability. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Datadog's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (51%), application (16%), evaluation (9%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Datadog is hiring AI talent in: United States (29 roles), France (13 roles), Spain (9 roles), Portugal (8 roles).
Job postings at Datadog most frequently reference: agent orchestration, evals, llm observability, model serving, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, Datadog has posted 9 new AI-related roles. That is a +80% change versus the prior 30 days (5 → 9).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| AI Research Engineer - Datadog AI Research (DAIR) Research Engineer role focused on building multimodal foundation models for observability and training autonomous agents for SRE incident response. Involves data pipelines, training/evaluation infrastructure, simulation environments, and distributed RL. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR) Research Scientist role focused on building multimodal foundation models and trained agents for cloud observability, involving distributed training, RL loops, and simulation environments. Collaborates with product and engineering to integrate research into Datadog's offerings. | Post-trainAgent |
| 9 |
| Staff Applied Scientist - Dashboards Staff Applied Scientist focused on defining and guaranteeing the quality of an AI system (Dashboards product) at scale. This involves owning the evaluation strategy, building eval datasets and regression harnesses, and driving improvements in retrieval relevance and tool-selection accuracy. The role requires leadership in ML/GenAI initiatives and significant experience in evaluation and measurement of ML systems. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Staff GenAI Engineer role focused on building and deploying agentic workflows for Datadog's APM product. The role involves technical leadership in designing, training, evaluating, and scaling GenAI/ML models, with a strong emphasis on product-mindedness and end-to-end initiative ownership. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff Applied Scientist - Agentic Interfaces Staff Applied Scientist focused on defining and building the evaluation systems for Datadog's AI agent integrations. This role involves setting metrics, creating eval datasets and harnesses, and conducting applied research on agent-data interaction, tool selection, and multi-turn evaluation. The goal is to ensure demonstrable improvements in agent performance and quality. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Manager II, Engineering - Applied AI (NorAm) Manager II, Engineering - Applied AI at Datadog. Leads teams building AI foundations and AI-powered features across the Datadog platform, including training ML models, building agents, and shipping natural language interfaces. The role involves setting technical vision, shipping AI products end-to-end, coaching teams, and driving collaboration. Requires experience leading multiple teams and deep technical expertise in areas like LLMs, agentic systems, and ML infrastructure. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Manager I, Engineering - CodeGen Manager I, Engineering for Datadog's CodeGen team, focusing on building production systems that use AI to understand, generate, and safely modify code. The role involves leading a team, driving technical direction, partnering with cross-functional teams, and ensuring production readiness for AI-enabled code generation features. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Staff AI Engineer - Notebooks Staff AI Engineer focused on building AI-driven workflows within Datadog Notebooks, including agent systems, natural-language data analysis, and assisted graph generation. The role involves technical leadership, full development cycle ownership, and driving product direction for AI-powered features. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Director, Product Management - Applied AI Director of Product Management for Applied AI at Datadog, responsible for leading and shaping the roadmap and delivery of AI-driven product capabilities. The role involves owning the vision and strategy for AI products, managing a team of product managers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, identifying new opportunities for AI product innovation, and working closely with customers to understand pain points and deliver tangible value. Requires deep technical knowledge of AI/ML and a track record of successfully leading AI product development and delivery. | Ship | 8 |
| Manager I, Engineering - AI Platform - Annotation & Evaluation Manager for an AI Platform team focused on Annotation & Evaluation. Responsibilities include managing engineers, defining technical roadmap, tailoring data pipelines, and creating team culture. The role involves hands-on work like code and design reviews. Experience in leading software engineering teams and building high-performing teams is required. The role also requires experience with AI coding tools and validating AI-generated output. Bonus for pushing AI boundaries in software engineering. | Eval GateData | 8 |
| Manager II, Engineering - AI Platform Training, Serving and Storage (NorAm) Manager II, Engineering for Datadog's AI Platform, focusing on training, serving, and storage. This role involves leading teams, defining roadmaps, and shaping the technical vision for AI infrastructure that supports large-scale training and inference. The position requires experience in building ML/AI platforms, managing managers, and fostering a strong engineering culture. | ServeData | 8 |
| Manager I, Engineering - Applied AI - Natural Language & Conversational Interfaces Manager I, Engineering - Applied AI role at Datadog, leading a team to build natural language interfaces and conversational AI systems. Focuses on LLM-powered query translation, retrieval systems, agentic architectures, and evaluation frameworks for Datadog's platform. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior AI Engineer - APM Experiences Senior AI Engineer role focused on building and shipping LLM and Agent-based features for Datadog's APM product. The role involves end-to-end development, from problem discovery and prototyping to production deployment and scaling, with a strong emphasis on creating autonomous agents that can debug, optimize, and monitor application performance. | Agent | 8 |
| Product Manager II - Model Lab Product Manager II for Model Lab, a new experiment tracking platform for teams training and fine-tuning foundational models. The role involves defining product vision, market validation, and driving execution for a new offering integrated into Datadog's observability platform, serving AI research, ML platform, and applied AI teams. | Data | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer - AI Code Gen - Agent Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-assisted tools for Datadog developers, specifically LLM-based agents for tasks like test generation and bug fixing. The role involves working on prompts, evaluations, agent tools, and productionizing these systems, with a focus on shipping products that enhance developer productivity. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer - ML Observability Staff Software Engineer focused on building and scaling ML Observability tools for LLMs and generative AI, including drift detection, model evaluation, and behavior tracing. The role involves leading feature development, shaping product direction, and influencing architecture to ensure AI systems are observable, understandable, and reliable in production. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Senior Staff GenAI Engineer focused on agentic workflows within Datadog's APM product. The role involves leading the design, training, evaluation, and deployment of GenAI/ML models at scale, with a strong emphasis on product-mindedness and end-to-end system ownership. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Staff GenAI Engineer focused on agentic workflows within Datadog's APM product. The role involves technical leadership in designing, training, evaluating, and deploying GenAI/ML models at scale, with a strong product mindset and collaboration across teams. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Product Manager - Search Datadog is seeking a Senior Product Manager for their Search team, focusing on enhancing search capabilities for both human and AI agents. The role involves defining and delivering AI agentic search tools, integrating ranking and recommendation models, and understanding customer search journeys. Experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems is required, along with a strong technical background and product management experience. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Distinguished Architect, AI Distinguished Architect for Datadog's Product Solutions Architecture team, focusing on serving AI/LLM companies. This role acts as a technical multiplier, bridging customer infrastructure needs with Datadog's roadmap, particularly for training and deploying foundational models at scale. Responsibilities include thought leadership, strategic advisory, architecture reviews, identifying technology shifts, and collaborating with internal teams. Requires deep technical expertise in distributed systems, AI/LLM ecosystem, and observability, with strong stakeholder management and presentation skills. | Serve | 7 |
| Engineering Manager I, Threat Detection Engineering Manager for Threat Detection at Datadog, leading a team focused on AI-accelerated threat detection. The role involves strategy, roadmap, and execution for AI-driven detections, building and mentoring engineers, and partnering with security and AI teams. Key responsibilities include developing detection-authoring agents, the detection platform, and evaluation infrastructure, while also shipping direct detections. The role requires experience in security operations, building automation systems, and leading teams, with a focus on production quality and AI/ML systems lifecycle. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Platform Product Manager - AI SDLC Trusted Throughput Product Manager for AI SDLC Trusted Throughput, focusing on enabling safe and reliable software delivery for AI-native scale within Datadog's Internal Developer Platform. The role involves defining product strategy for evolving SDLC systems to incorporate built-in safety, observability, and correctness guarantees, partnering with engineering, security, and developer platform teams to improve deployment reliability, operational visibility, and governance for both engineers and AI agents. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Bits AI SRE Senior Software Engineer to build AI-assisted product experiences for Datadog customers, focusing on conversational workflows, guided remediations, and codefixes. The role involves backend engineering, product development, and prompt engineering for reliable, production-quality AI systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Manager II, Engineering - Source Security Manager to lead a team evaluating source code security using static analysis and LLM-based review systems, focusing on agentic reviewers, secure guardrails, and sandboxing for coding agents. The role involves managing a team, contributing technically, and defining the roadmap for evaluating coding agent output and securing source code. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Director, Product Management - AI Observability Datadog is looking for a Director of Product Management to lead their AI Observability portfolio. This role involves setting the vision and strategy for AI-driven products, leading a team of product managers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver AI product solutions. The ideal candidate has proven experience in AI product management, deep technical knowledge of AI technologies, and a track record of successfully leading the development and delivery of AI-driven products. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager - Data Agent Product Manager for a new 'Data Agent' product at Datadog, focusing on building a context layer for AI-powered analytics with governance and analysis features. The role involves driving product vision, understanding user needs (data teams and consumers), designing trust and governance mechanisms, and engaging with customers. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Applied Scientist - Applied AI (NorAm) Datadog is seeking a Staff Applied Scientist to join their Applied AI team. This role will focus on developing and integrating AI-powered features into Datadog's observability and security platform, providing unified visibility and enabling faster issue resolution. The position is based in New York. | Ship | 7 |
| Manager I, Engineering - APM Retrieval Manager for APM Retrieval team at Datadog, focusing on query path for traces and spans search, and leading the evolution of APM MCP Toolset for agentic workflows. This role involves leading a team, defining technical direction, driving cross-functional alignment, and ensuring operational excellence for critical APM services, with a focus on AI-powered product development and exposing APM intelligence. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager - Database AI Optimization Senior Product Manager to lead investments in AI optimization for databases, focusing on product development, customer understanding, and launching new monitoring and optimization capabilities. The role involves collaborating with engineering, marketing, and other product teams, and leveraging AI tools for research and evaluation. | ShipEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Developer Advocate - Modern App Development Senior Developer Advocate role focused on AI-accelerated workflows and modern app development. The role involves creating technical content, engaging with developer communities, and designing open-source templates to integrate observability into AI-native workflows. Requires strong software engineering experience and fluency in leveraging AI coding assistants. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager, AAA/Enterprise Growth Product Manager for Datadog's Enterprise Growth team, focusing on the commercial and lifecycle layer of the Enterprise SKU. This role involves owning packaging, pricing, growth motions, and communications infrastructure to drive expansion within large accounts. The position requires cross-functional influence, a metrics-driven approach, and fluency in AI-assisted workflows for research, analysis, and content generation. The goal is to operate as a GM for the Enterprise SKU, turning product adoption into controlled account growth. | — | 5 |
| Senior Procurement Analyst This role is for a Senior Procurement Analyst who will leverage AI tools to enhance market research, data analysis, and sourcing workflows. The primary focus is on strategic sourcing within G&A categories, including identifying automation opportunities in procurement processes and analyzing spend data to find cost savings. The role also involves leading sourcing events, negotiating with vendors, managing renewals, and building license forecast models. While the role uses AI tools and seeks to incorporate AI into processes, it does not involve building or shipping AI models. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager II, AI & Data Security Product Manager II for Datadog's AI & Data Security product, focusing on discovery, posture management, and data security for AI applications and agentic systems. The role involves owning the roadmap, defining security assessment capabilities, partnering with engineering and design, collaborating with security researchers, and engaging with customers to ensure secure AI adoption at scale. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager II - Security Graph Foundations Product Manager for Datadog's Security Graph Foundations, a shared platform powering security intelligence across multiple products. The role involves defining and executing the roadmap, driving infrastructure investments, and partnering with engineering and product teams to expand graph use cases and data modeling. | — | 5 |
| Partner Technology Solutions Engineer Partner Technology Solutions Engineer at Datadog, focusing on enabling third-party developers to build integrations on the Datadog platform. This role involves technical consulting, architectural design, code reviews, and problem-solving for partners, ensuring their integrations are high-performing and secure. The role also involves identifying platform friction points and collaborating with internal teams to improve the developer experience. | — | 5 |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Technical Solutions (US-East) This role focuses on engineering and owning enterprise systems and integrations that support a large technical solutions organization. A key aspect is incorporating AI to make these systems smarter, such as through intelligent routing, automated triage, and agent-assisted workflows. The role involves building AI-powered features using LLMs, embeddings, RAG, and agent frameworks, and contributing to the Datadog codebase when necessary. The engineer will also use AI coding tools to improve their workflow. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Director, Creative This role is for a Senior Director of Creative at Datadog, focusing on leading design, video, and copy for an AI-era business. The role involves setting creative standards, leading creative leaders, driving brand evolution, and integrating AI into creative workflows to scale output while maintaining human craft standards. The company is an observability and security platform using AI. | — | 5 |
| Principal Analyst Relations Manager This role is for a Principal Analyst Relations Manager at Datadog, focusing on shaping and scaling the company's global Analyst Relations (AR) program. The role involves strategic engagement with industry analysts on Datadog's observability and AI portfolio, translating technical capabilities into narratives, and incorporating analyst insights into business strategy. It requires strong collaboration with Product Management and Product Marketing, and involves leading analyst evaluations and preparing senior leaders for briefings. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager - Serverless Senior Product Manager for Serverless at Datadog, focusing on observability for serverless applications. The role involves defining and delivering products that help developers monitor and operate serverless systems, working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and AI-powered workflows. Collaboration with engineering, design, AWS, and customers is key to shaping how customers build and run modern serverless applications. | — | 5 |
| Director, Product Management - Infrastructure Monitoring Director of Product Management to lead and shape the roadmap and delivery of Datadog's Infrastructure Monitoring product capabilities in the AI era. This role involves identifying and embedding AI capabilities into the product suite, driving AI-powered innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-driven products and solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Security Engineer, Offensive Security Senior Security Engineer focused on offensive security, leveraging AI and automation to execute sophisticated red team operations and build scalable tooling. The role involves planning and executing red team engagements, developing custom offensive tooling and evasion capabilities, and improving operational efficiency through AI. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Application Security Engineer Senior Application Security Engineer responsible for building scalable, platform-level security controls to enforce production security invariants across Datadog's infrastructure and developer workflows, with a focus on identity, access, and isolation for AI-driven and agentic workloads. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer II - Vulnerability Lifecycle Security Engineer II focused on the vulnerability management lifecycle, aiming to improve efficiency through automation and an AI-first approach. The role involves reducing engineering toil, developing automation for detection and remediation, collaborating with various teams to shift left on vulnerabilities, and developing metrics for leadership. It also requires providing expertise for compliance frameworks like SOC2, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP, and ISO. | — | 5 |
| GTM Strategy and Operations Associate This role focuses on managing and strategizing the sales productivity tool ecosystem, with a significant emphasis on identifying, evaluating, and piloting AI-powered tools to enhance sales productivity. The role involves owning the tool portfolio, driving vendor performance, measuring impact, and collaborating with various teams to ensure seamless integration and adoption of these tools. While the role uses and evaluates AI tools, it does not involve building or shipping AI models directly. | — | 5 |
| Manager II, Engineering - Bring Your Own Cloud Manager II, Engineering role focused on leading teams to build, scale, and operate a new "Bring Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) product initiative at Datadog, expanding into logs, metrics, and traces. The role involves product design, roadmap definition, execution, and operational reliability, with a requirement to use and validate AI coding tools. | — | 5 |
| AI Governance Analyst 1 This role focuses on AI Governance and Process Design for AI Orchestration systems. The analyst will translate regulatory and policy requirements into actionable governance frameworks, design and implement process guardrails within AI systems, and partner with engineering and legal teams to monitor and audit AI agent behavior. The goal is to embed governance as a foundational architecture rather than just a review process. | Agent | 5 |
| Associate Marketing Data Analyst - Marketing Analytics This role supports a marketing analytics team by maintaining data, dashboards, and implementing AI solutions to improve workflows. It involves data analysis, SQL, BI tools, and Excel/Google Sheets. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager - Code Security Senior Product Manager for Datadog's Code Security products, focusing on application vulnerability management and software composition analysis. The role involves defining roadmaps, conducting customer discovery, and launching new capabilities at the intersection of AI and security. While the role mentions AI, it is not core to building AI models but rather leveraging AI tools within security products. | — | 5 |
| Privacy Counsel Seeking a Privacy Counsel to advise on data protection, cybersecurity, and AI governance matters, partnering with legal, product, and engineering teams. The role involves conducting privacy and AI risk assessments, developing internal policies for responsible AI use, and monitoring emerging AI regulatory developments. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager - AI & Data Security Product Manager II at Datadog focused on defining and delivering capabilities for organizations to securely adopt and scale AI. The role involves building products for visibility into AI systems and data usage, assessing security posture, and managing risk across the AI lifecycle, operating at the intersection of security, AI, and cloud platforms. | — | 5 |