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.
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).
Enterprise · Observability
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Staff Software Engineer Senior Staff Software Engineer at Datadog, a company focused on observability and security for the AI era. The role involves technical leadership in designing and building large-scale distributed systems, including observability data platforms, query engines, and event streaming infrastructure. The engineer will drive technical direction, optimize system performance and reliability, and mentor other engineers. While the company is AI-focused and the role mentions using AI coding tools, the core responsibilities are in traditional large-scale systems engineering, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role at Datadog, focused on building and scaling systems. The role emphasizes using AI coding tools and contributing to AI-enabled products, but the core responsibilities are in software engineering for a large-scale platform, not direct AI/ML model development or research. The company positions itself as an observability platform for the AI era. | — |
| 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and running foundational distributed systems platforms for Datadog's observability and security platform. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions that process billions of events per second in real-time, optimized for durability, high availability, and low latency. Experience with languages like Go, Java, Rust, or C++ and components like Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch is required. While the role is primarily focused on distributed systems infrastructure, it mentions the use and potential improvement of AI coding tools and building AI-enabled products as a bonus. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer at Datadog, a leading observability and security platform. The role focuses on technical leadership, designing and building industry-leading systems at planet scale, and improving company-wide standards. While not directly building AI models, the role requires demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools and has a bonus motivation to improve AI best practices and contribute to AI-enabled products. The company itself uses AI extensively in its platform. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure R&D This role focuses on building and designing systems for infrastructure provisioning and orchestration, specifically aiming to reduce complexity and operational overhead. A key aspect involves creating environments that can support the rapid expansion of AI inference workloads, though the role itself is not directly building AI models or agents. | — | 1 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Environments Accelerator Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing and building systems for infrastructure provisioning and datacenter operations, with a specific mention of supporting AI inference workloads. The role involves working with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and IaC, aiming to reduce operational overhead and complexity. | — | 1 |
| Senior Developer Advocate - Data Observability Senior Developer Advocate focused on Data Observability, enabling engineers to build better software. This role involves acting as a subject matter expert, creating content (demos, blogs, talks), partnering with internal teams, contributing product feedback, and identifying community engagement opportunities. Requires deep hands-on experience in modern data engineering, data platforms, streaming systems, data quality/lineage, and programming/querying. Experience in advocacy and reaching technical audiences is also necessary. | — | 1 |
| Datadog for Startups Engineering Lead Datadog is seeking an Engineering Lead for its Datadog for Startups program. This role combines technical sales engineering and ecosystem growth leadership to attract and support fast-scaling companies. The lead will validate technical needs, deliver tailored demos, manage forward-deployed engineering projects, and represent Datadog at events. They will also contribute to program improvements and automation. The ideal candidate has 5-7 years of experience in sales engineering or a related technical role, a strong understanding of startup tech stacks, and excellent communication skills. | — | 1 |
| Security Engineer 2 - Cyber Threat Intelligence Security Engineer role focused on Cyber Threat Intelligence, developing tooling for intelligence collection and analysis, assessing threats, conducting threat hunting, and operationalizing intelligence into security improvements. Partners with security teams for detection, response, and strategy. | — | 0 |
| Lead Creative Operations Manager This role is for a Lead Creative Operations Manager who will build and manage scalable workflows for the Brand team, focusing on design, video, motion, and illustration. The manager will partner with leadership to improve operational rigor, design systems for creative intake and project management, and drive efficiency. While the role involves using AI tools and automation platforms to streamline workflows, the core function is operational management, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Commercial Sales - LATAM (Portuguese-Speaking) Manager, Commercial Sales for LATAM at Datadog, a company providing an observability and security platform for the AI era. The role focuses on leading a team of Commercial Account Executives, developing sales strategies, managing forecasts, and driving lead generation and pipeline management. Requires experience in hi-tech direct sales, SaaS/Cloud, Salesforce, and fluency in Portuguese. The company uses AI to detect and resolve issues. | — | 0 |
| Manager I, Documentation Manager for a technical documentation team at Datadog, focusing on creating and maintaining public product documentation for APIs, SDKs, developer, and security tools. The role involves managing technical writers, partnering with product and engineering teams, and researching technical details for content. | — | 0 |
| Associate Field Marketing Manager (West/Central) Datadog is seeking an Associate Field Marketing Manager to support event logistics, third-party sponsorships, and vendor coordination for the West and Central NAMER region. This role focuses on the execution and operational delivery of regional programs to support pipeline-generating activities, enabling Field Marketing Managers to focus on strategic planning. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture This role is for a Senior Manager of Product Solutions Architecture at Datadog, focusing on enabling customer success and driving adoption of Datadog's platform. The role involves managing a team, mentoring, providing architectural guidance to enterprise customers, and acting as a trusted advisor to Product Management. While Datadog is an AI platform, this specific role is centered on customer solutions and product adoption rather than direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Head of Executive Search, Business Recruiting Head of Executive Search to build and lead a centralized, specialized function responsible for global leadership hiring across sales, marketing, technical solutions, and G&A. This role will bring consistency, rigor, and strategic ownership to Senior Director, VP, and SVP hiring while partnering closely with executive stakeholders to deliver high-impact talent outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Sales Engineer - Key Accounts (Central) This role is for a Senior Sales Engineer at Datadog, focusing on key accounts in Central US. The primary responsibility is to provide technical expertise, conduct sales presentations, product demonstrations, and support technical evaluations. The role involves partnering with the sales team, owning technical engagements during the trial phase, technically closing complex opportunities, and delivering product briefings. The ideal candidate has strong communication skills, programming/scripting experience, and at least 3 years in a Sales Engineering or DevOps Engineering role. While Datadog is an AI company, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building AI models. | — | 0 |
| Senior Program Manager, People Team (NYC) Program Manager for the People Team at Datadog, a company that provides an observability and security platform for the AI era. The role involves driving large-scale, cross-functional programs related to People products and infrastructure, partnering with various stakeholders to deliver transformative initiatives. The company uses AI to manage complexity at scale and detect/resolve issues. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Mid-Market Sales (San Francisco) Manager, Mid-Market Sales role at Datadog, focusing on strategy, mentorship, and guidance for a team of Account Executives selling a proven product into a multi-billion dollar market. Responsibilities include team motivation, forecasting, hiring, training, lead generation, pipeline management, and monitoring the sales funnel. Requires experience in tech industry direct sales, familiarity with SaaS/Cloud and Salesforce, and proven ability to manage an outbound sales team. | — | 0 |
| Billing Operations Analyst This role is a Billing Operations Analyst within Datadog's Finance team. The analyst will research and resolve complex billing questions, partner with cross-functional teams, and contribute to process improvement initiatives. The role requires 1-3 years of experience, proficiency in Excel, and strong communication skills. Experience in a SaaS environment, with NetSuite/Salesforce, SQL, or data visualization tools are considered bonuses. | — | 0 |
| Staff Product Designer - Metrics Datadog is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape the next generation of Datadog Metrics, a foundational product for observability. The role involves leading design for customer workflows related to metrics investigation, cost, and governance within a deeply technical platform. The designer will partner with product managers, engineers, and researchers to translate complex technical subject matter into simple, scalable user experiences. | — | 0 |
| Coordinator, Business Recruiting - Contract (NYC) This is a Business Recruiting Coordinator role at Datadog, a company that provides an observability and security platform for the AI era. The role focuses on managing the interview process, scheduling, candidate communication, and supporting the growth of the company's teams. It is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Maintenance Assistant (NYC) This role is for a Maintenance Assistant responsible for the day-to-day operations of office spaces, including cleanliness, safety, and light facilities maintenance. It involves managing service requests via a ticketing system, coordinating with vendors, and ensuring the functionality of office furniture and equipment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Accountant Senior Accountant role focused on financial close, reconciliations, financial statement analytics, internal reporting, and supporting audits. Requires 3+ years of accounting experience, CPA certification, and knowledge of US GAAP, SOX 404, and SEC reporting standards. Experience with Netsuite, FloQast, and Workiva is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Synthetics Platform Datadog is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Synthetics Platform team. This role involves deploying and managing Synthetics locations, developing automated migration tooling, and supporting infrastructure for Synthetics products. The ideal candidate will have experience with distributed systems, cloud environments, and infrastructure-as-code. | — | 0 |
| Senior PM - Managed Security Service Provider (Cloud SIEM) Datadog is seeking a Senior PM for Managed Security Service Provider (Cloud SIEM) experience. The role involves defining and delivering capabilities for MSSPs and MDR partners to monitor, hunt, triage, and respond to threats across multiple customer environments. This includes extending Datadog Security's Detection Engine into broader multi-tenant security operations workflows. The role requires translating complex managed security workflows into scalable product experiences, partnering with engineering, design, and customers. While the company mentions AI in its general description and the bonus section mentions using AI coding tools and building AI-enabled products, the core responsibilities of this specific Product Manager role are focused on security operations workflows for MSSPs and MDRs, not on building or directly shipping AI/ML models or systems as the primary deliverable. | — | 0 |
| Manager I, Engineering - Data Visualization Explorations Manager for a Data Visualization Explorations team focused on enhancing core widgets and creating end-to-end experiences for observability engineers, involving product direction, team coaching, and cross-team collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Recruiter II, Business Recruiting (NYC) Recruiter role at Datadog, an observability and security platform company. The role focuses on full-lifecycle recruiting, sourcing, screening, collaborating with leadership on interview processes, negotiating compensation, and enhancing the recruitment process. The company emphasizes its AI capabilities in its platform. | — | 0 |
| Inclusion Program Manager (NYC) This role focuses on building and sustaining programs that promote belonging at Datadog, primarily leading Community Guilds (Employee Resource Groups) and supporting company-wide Inclusion events and initiatives. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional partners, coaching co-leads, and managing relationships with external partners. It emphasizes driving a more inclusive culture and strengthening how the business works and grows. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Mid Market Sales (Boston) Manager, Mid-Market Sales role at Datadog, focusing on strategy, mentorship, and guidance for a team of Account Executives. The role involves driving sales into companies of 1,000-5,000 employees and managing the sales funnel. Datadog is described as an observability and security platform for the AI era. | — | 0 |
| Manager I, Technical Account Management - San Francisco Manager for Technical Account Management team at Datadog, focusing on customer success and product adoption. The role involves managing and mentoring a team, assisting with recruiting, overseeing customer onboarding and development, and ensuring technical training and product adoption for customers. It also requires collaboration with various internal teams and iterating on best practices for customer success. | — | 0 |
| Manager II, Federal Support Engineering - Denver Manager II for Datadog's Federal Support Engineering team, focusing on serving Public Sector customers in regulated environments. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring support engineers, collaborating across teams, and ensuring excellent customer and organizational results. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Accounting Datadog is seeking a Senior Manager, Accounting to oversee global payroll, bonuses, commissions, and other compensation accounting areas. This role requires ensuring financial reporting integrity, driving scalable processes, and managing key aspects of the financial close and audit processes. The position involves leading a team, ensuring US GAAP compliance, and partnering with various departments. | — | 0 |
| Principal Growth Marketing Manager - SEO/GEO This role leads organic growth through content and off-page strategy, focusing on traditional search engines and emerging AI/LLM platforms. It involves defining content, identifying opportunities, and influencing cross-functional teams to drive traffic and pipeline. The role also involves optimizing presence across LLM-ingested content for AI-driven discoverability and designing off-page strategies. | — | 0 |
| Director, Compensation Programs Datadog is seeking a Director, Compensation Programs to lead the design, implementation, and management of global compensation strategies. This role will ensure compensation programs are competitive, equitable, and aligned with business objectives to attract, retain, and motivate top talent in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. The role involves leading strategy, design, and execution of compensation programs, overseeing operations, driving market competitiveness and pay equity, ensuring regulatory compliance, and partnering with leadership to deliver data-driven insights. | — | 0 |
| Senior Mid Market Account Executive - San Francisco Datadog is seeking a Senior Mid-Market Account Executive to drive net-new customer acquisition for their observability and security platform, which is positioned for the AI era. The role involves strategic prospecting, managing complex sales cycles, and collaborating with internal teams to convey the value of Datadog's AI-powered solutions to mid-to-large size markets. | — | 0 |
| Technical Account Manager 2 - NYC Datadog is seeking a Technical Account Manager 2 to serve as a trusted advisor to strategic enterprise customers, accelerating their adoption of the Datadog platform and enabling long-term success. The role involves providing deep technical expertise, consultative insight, and ensuring customers derive business value from monitoring, observability, and DevOps practices. | — | 0 |
| Technical Account Manager 2 - Denver This role is a Technical Account Manager for Datadog, focusing on enabling customer adoption and success with the Datadog platform, which is described as an observability and security platform for the AI era. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, leading enablement sessions, analyzing IT operations, and providing recommendations for product usage and improvements. While the company and its platform are AI-centric, the TAM role itself is customer-facing and product-focused, not directly involved in building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Director, Head of Global Benefits Seeking a Director, Head of Global Benefits to lead the design, implementation, and scaling of benefits programs across 20+ countries. This role ensures global benefits strategy is competitive, compliant, and aligned with business goals, supporting a diverse and distributed workforce. Responsibilities include defining strategy, designing and scaling programs, overseeing operations, ensuring compliance, managing budgets, benchmarking, leading leave programs, leveraging data, communicating offerings, and building a team. | — | 0 |
| Senior Internal Auditor Datadog is seeking a Senior Internal Auditor to support SOX testing and other audit projects, focusing on identifying and mitigating technology risks across various domains including cybersecurity, IT, data privacy, finance, and the Datadog product platform. The role involves assessing risks, managing SOX control testing, developing the IT audit program, and partnering with various teams to ensure control design. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Revenue Accounting Senior Manager, Revenue role at Datadog, focusing on owning the end-to-end revenue lifecycle, including deal structuring, revenue recognition, and reporting. This role leads the Revenue Accounting & Operations team and requires strong experience with ASC 606 and SaaS revenue models. While the company mentions AI/LLM-driven workflows as a plus, the core responsibilities are in traditional revenue accounting and operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Cloud Security Engineer - K8s Senior Cloud Security Engineer focused on Kubernetes and Service Mesh to secure cloud infrastructure and enable safe AI usage. Develops AI-based solutions for security at scale. | — | 0 |
| Services Architect 3 - Denver This role is for a Services Architect at Datadog, focusing on implementing and deploying the Datadog platform for customers. Responsibilities include designing technical roadmaps, guiding customer onboarding, writing automation, and managing implementation projects. The role requires experience with cloud platforms, DevOps monitoring, IAC, CI/CD tools, and scripting languages. While Datadog positions itself as an 'observability and security platform for the AI era' and mentions using AI, this specific role is about implementing their platform, not directly building or researching AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Product Marketing Manager - Log Management Product Marketing Manager for Datadog's Log Management product suite, focusing on scaling go-to-market strategies, product launches, sales enablement, and customer marketing for a $1B+ ARR business. This role is highly cross-functional and requires ownership of strategic functions within the Logs business. | — | 0 |
| Senior Staff Visual Designer, Design Lab Datadog is seeking a Senior Staff Visual Designer to define and evolve the visual language of their product, including AI-driven experiences. This role will establish the visual quality bar, lead exploratory work, and translate visual ideas into scalable design system patterns. The designer will partner with Brand, Product Design, and Design Systems, influence stakeholders, and prototype new patterns. The role reports to the Design Director and is part of a small team shaping the future visual direction of Datadog's platform. | — | 0 |
| Product Marketing Manager Product Marketing Manager at Datadog responsible for driving go-to-market initiatives, creating messaging and positioning, and developing content and assets for Datadog's products. This role collaborates with product management, sales, and advocacy to champion Datadog solutions. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineer 3, Premier - San Francisco Technical Support Engineer role focused on assisting Datadog's Premier customers with technical questions, troubleshooting, and implementing integrations. The role involves building customer relationships, handling escalations, driving product/engineering conversations, and improving documentation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager - Network Path Product Manager for Datadog's Network Path product, focusing on visualizing, monitoring, and troubleshooting network traffic in hybrid and cloud environments. The role involves defining strategy, owning the roadmap, exploring data combinations for network health analysis, and building intelligent alerting/root-cause analysis capabilities. While the company positions itself in the 'AI era' and uses AI, this specific role is focused on network infrastructure observability rather than direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Area Vice President, Sales Engineering This role leads a team of Sales Engineering Directors in North America, focusing on enterprise, major, and public sector accounts. The leader will define the Sales Engineering strategy, recruit and develop talent, and act as a trusted advisor to C-level executives, demonstrating how Datadog's platform addresses critical challenges, particularly in the context of AI adoption. The role involves cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to influence product roadmaps and ensure customer needs are met. | — | 0 |
| Manager I, Engineering - Subscriptions Manager I, Engineering for Datadog's Subscriptions team, which is part of the core monetization platform. This role involves leading a full-stack engineering team to build and operate high-throughput, high-availability services that process revenue-critical pipelines for cloud marketplaces, partners, and in-app purchasing. The position focuses on evolving systems to support new pricing models, purchasing flows, and regional requirements, with ownership across customer-facing features and backend services. | — | 0 |
| Manager, GTM Strategy/Operations Manager, GTM Strategy/Operations role at Datadog, focusing on Channels and Alliances. This role involves strategic planning, improving business efficiency, supporting data-driven decision-making, and leading global transformation programs. The candidate will act as a trusted advisor to leadership, design strategic plans, and drive initiatives to adoption. While the company uses AI, this role is not directly building or shipping AI models or systems, but rather leveraging AI as a tool for operational efficiency. | — | 0 |