Senior Software Engineer - AI Code Gen - Agent Engineer

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Boston, MA +2 · Remote · Dev Eng

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.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely with our users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge and delightful LLM-based agents.
  2. Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them with Datadog products.
  3. Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship.
  4. Follow the latest research on LLM prompting, agents, and code editing.
  5. Work with other Datadog teams to expand capabilities, for example integrating with the Datadog IDE extensions to deliver a CoPilot-like assistant, or Dynamic Instrumentation to collect more runtime data from production and pre-production environments.

Skills

Required

  • backend engineering
  • 5 years of professional experience
  • Go, Java, Python
  • LLMs
  • large-scale systems and data sets
  • machine learning
  • writing developer tools (such as IDEs, static code analysis tools, or compilers)
  • AI coding tools

Nice to have

  • product-minded
  • community ambassador
  • drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution
  • fast, high-growth startup environment
  • experience writing developer tools

What the JD emphasized

  • shipped software that uses LLMs to production
  • demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output

Other signals

  • building LLM-based agents
  • productionizing AI systems
  • shipping AI products