Datadog . We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in AI/ML to join Datadog’s Graphing organization. The Graphing organization develops Datadog’s suite of core tools: Dashboards for flexible display of live real-time insights, Notebooks for collaborative investigations and technical documentation, Sheets for manual curation of tabular data, search capabilities powering user queries, and powerful data-visualization toolkits used across Datadog. These product lines enable a majority of Datadog users’ daily workflows. This presents a powerful opportunity to be industry leaders in AI-driven workflows for natural-language-queries, graph generation, automated investigations, and more.
What You’ll Do and How You’ll Grow: as a technical leader with deep AI/ML expertise to help power these workflows. You’ll design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale, identify and prioritize opportunities to apply GenAI in graphing workflows, and contribute as a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical and leadership experience.
What You’ll Do
Act as a technical leader driving GenAI/ML projects from concept to production.
Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques.
Establish a high standard of technical excellence for ML development in Graphing.
Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups.
Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user.
Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.
Who You Are
You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including experience acting as a technical lead.
Proven track record of leading large-scale GenAI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment.
Significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
Ability to drive initiatives across cross-functional teams and solve ambiguous challenges.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth
Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. Use the tools we build to accelerate development.
Have influence on product direction and impact on the business.
Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn.
Competitive global benefits.
Continuous professional development.
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. Datadog provides a wide range of benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$234,000—$300,000 USD.
About Datadog
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business focused on breaking down silos and solving complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of customers’ technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across industries. We champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems and celebrate one another.
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Equality and Accessibility
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Job details
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Software Development