Datadog
Enterprise · Observability
- HQ
- New York, US
- Founded
- 2010
- Size
- 7,000+
- Funding
- Public (DDOG)
- Website
- datadoghq.com
- Blog
- datadoghq.com
Products
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).
Enterprise · Observability
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Staff Application Security Engineer Staff Application Security Engineer responsible for defining and driving security standards, building security tooling and automation, leading threat modeling, and assessing/addressing security risks introduced by agentic development practices and AI-powered product features. The role involves partnering with engineering teams, identifying systemic security risks, and ensuring secure-by-default solutions at scale within an enterprise environment that uses AI extensively. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Logs Management Staff Software Engineer role focused on Datadog's Logs organization, involving complex initiatives in ingestion pipelines, search infrastructure, and intelligent log management capabilities. The role emphasizes using AI and distributed systems to redefine how customers ingest, query, and derive insights from logs data, with opportunities to lead technical strategy and explore AI-powered capabilities. | Agent | 5 |