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).
Enterprise · Observability
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 |
| Senior LLM Engineer Senior LLM Engineer to build AI-assisted tools for Datadog developers, focusing on LLM-based agents, generating tests, fixing bugs, and improving performance. The role involves working with users, designers, and PMs to prototype, iterate, and ship these systems, integrating them with Datadog products and following the latest research in LLM prompting and agents. | 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 - Bits AI Security Analyst Datadog is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build the next generation of AI-driven security capabilities, focusing on their AI agent that leverages LLMs for security analysis and threat investigation. The role involves developing tools, retrieval and planning strategies, guardrails, prompt management, and shipping AI-driven security features. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Agent Engineer) - AI Code Gen Datadog is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build AI-assisted tools for developers, focusing on LLM-based agents for tasks like test generation and bug fixing. The role involves working on prompts, evals, agent tools, productionizing systems, and integrating them with Datadog products. | 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 |
| 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 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 I, Engineering - Code Coverage Manager for an engineering team building AI-powered developer tooling, specifically focusing on code coverage. The role involves leading a team, setting technical direction, and hands-on contributions to architecture and design. The team will evolve the product to use AI and LLMs to improve test quality and effectiveness, leveraging production data. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Generative AI Engineer Senior Generative AI Engineer to build AI-assisted tools for Datadog developers, focusing on LLM-based agents for tasks like test generation and bug fixing. The role involves prompt engineering, agent tool development, productionization, and integration with existing Datadog products. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior AI Engineer Senior AI Engineer to build AI-assisted tools for Datadog developers, focusing on LLM-based agents for tasks like test generation and bug fixing. The role involves working closely with users, prototyping, productionizing systems, and integrating them with Datadog products. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer (AI) Senior Software Engineer to build AI-focused developer workflows and tools, including AI agents, prompts, and evals, for Datadog customers. The role involves ideation, prototyping, shipping features, and supporting other teams in productionizing AI workflows. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist This role focuses on building and deploying ML-powered features within Datadog's observability platform, specifically in areas like anomaly detection and error outlier analysis. The scientist will design, research, build, and scale these features, working closely with engineering and product teams, and will be involved in the full lifecycle from exploration to production monitoring. | Agent | 7 |