Datadog

Datadog AI Research (DAIR) is seeking a Research Manager to lead a team focused on fundamental research in post-training and autonomous agents. This role involves advancing reinforcement learning, simulated environments, synthetic data generation, and evaluation methods for agents operating in complex real-world systems. The manager will provide technical leadership, mentor researchers and engineers, shape research direction, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate research into products. This position is ideal for an experienced researcher or technical leader who wants to maintain hands-on research involvement while leading a high-performing team.

$244k - $305k

The Agent Observability team builds cutting-edge tools to monitor, explain, and improve AI systems in production, particularly those leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. We provide robust, scalable observability for AI workloads, including drift detection and model evaluation, and behavior tracing, enabling customers to ship AI with confidence. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the development of new features and foundational capabilities within Datadog’s LLM Observability product. You will shape product direction, drive experimentation, and apply your deep understanding of both AI systems and software engineering to solve open-ended problems in the fast-moving AI landscape. Your work will directly impact how our customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize LLM-based applications in production. Join us in building the foundational tools that make AI systems observable, understandable, and reliable in the real world.

$234k - $300k

The Datadog Agent is our flagship open-source project and a critical part of how customers experience Datadog, with hundreds of engineers contributing annually across multiple languages and platforms. As Manager II, Engineering for Datadog Agent SDLC, you will lead the systems, tooling, and developer experience that enable engineers to build, test, secure, and ship software that runs in customer environments. You will guide the evolution of our software development lifecycle as AI coding tools reshape how software is developed, while strengthening our approach to software supply-chain security, build infrastructure, correctness, and performance. This is an opportunity to shape engineering practices for the Agent and establish patterns that can influence other open-source projects across Datadog.

$244k - $305k

Bits Code is Datadog’s cloud coding agent designed to automatically fix problems surfaced by Datadog. In this role, you will shape the architecture, tools, processes, and culture to maintain a very low security risk while actively contributing to the rapid shipment of product features. We operate as a hybrid workplace, valuing office culture for its ability to build relationships, foster creativity, and encourage collaboration, while ensuring employees can achieve work-life harmony.

$192k - $240k

Datadog AI Research (DAIR) is seeking a Staff Research Scientist to lead research in post-training and autonomous agents. This hands-on role involves advancing reinforcement learning, simulated environments, synthetic data generation, and evaluation methods for agents operating in complex systems. You will define the technical direction for research programs, elevate the skills of your colleagues, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate research breakthroughs into Datadog's offerings.

$320k - $400k

As a Staff Research Scientist within Datadog AI Research (DAIR), you will drive research in foundation models and world models as a hands-on individual contributor. You will advance large-scale pre-training and multimodal learning across the diverse signals generated by distributed systems, including metrics, traces, logs, topology, and events. You will set the technical direction for ambitious research programs, raise the technical bar for the researchers and research engineers around you, and collaborate with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products.

$320k - $400k

Datadog AI Research (DAIR) is seeking a Research Scientist to partner with Research Engineers on fundamental research problems. The role involves translating research advances into products by collaborating with Datadog's product and engineering teams. The team focuses on high-risk, high-reward problems in cloud observability and security, building on existing AI-powered solutions. The research areas include developing multimodal foundation models for understanding distributed systems and training autonomous agents for observability tasks like incident response and code repair.

$320k - $400k

Datadog is seeking a customer-focused, deeply technical Distinguished Architect to join our Product Solutions Architecture team. In this role, you will act as a technical multiplier for leading AI labs and AI-native companies, bridging the gap between their infrastructure aspirations and Datadog’s technology roadmap. You will ensure our platform natively solves the unique observability challenges of training and deploying foundational models at scale. We operate as a hybrid workplace to foster collaboration and creativity while ensuring work-life harmony.

$330k - $440k

Code Intelligence is at the intersection of agentic engineering and product, running agents against real customer source code in production. This role offers the opportunity to lead an AI-native team in a business-critical growth area, providing high visibility and leverage within the fastest-growing segment of the AI agent space. Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, valuing office culture for collaboration and creativity while ensuring employees can achieve work-life harmony.

$192k - $240k

Datadog is seeking ambitious leaders to drive the growth of its Database Monitoring product, which is expanding beyond traditional monitoring to include self-healing capabilities powered by AI. The role involves building and developing engineering teams, collaborating closely with Product, and launching new features that deliver significant value to developers. This position is ideal for AI-forward leaders with product engineering backgrounds who are passionate about owning business lines and scaling exceptional teams.

$244k - $305k

The Internal Product Analytics (IPA) team serves as the analytics backbone for Datadog's Product organization, providing PMs and leadership with the data, tooling, platform, and analysis necessary for informed decision-making. The team is responsible for recurring analytical tasks and developing AI-first workflows to enhance the speed and consistency of analysis across the organization. As the Manager of IPA, you will lead a team of data analysts, collaborate closely with Product Managers, and partner with platform engineering teams. Your role will involve setting the strategic direction for team analysis, AI-first tooling development, and cross-functional partnerships, focusing on transforming complex data and open questions into clear, actionable insights.

$160k - $200k

Datadog's People Technology team is seeking a People Systems Developer to design and deploy AI-native workflows that will revolutionize how employees are hired, developed, and supported. This is a hands-on role where you will move beyond traditional HRIS configuration to prototype and productionize AI-enabled systems across various HR functions. You will work with high autonomy, collaborate directly with stakeholders, and deliver solutions that significantly enhance the People team's operations. Success in this role involves reducing manual People workflows by at least 20% through AI-enabled automation and intelligent system design.

$156k - $195k

Datadog AI Research (DAIR) is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University to support PhD students working on open research problems grounded by ongoing efforts at Datadog/DAIR. You will frame a problem, run your own experiments, and write up what you find, with compute and data at a scale most academic labs cannot provide. You will collaborate with colleagues working on the same questions. DAIR is an industrial research lab motivated by practical challenges in observability and software operation, focusing on creating specialized foundation models, post-training and evaluating AI agents, and building frontier-scale machine learning systems. Internship projects are shaped with your DAIR mentor and your CMU faculty advisor.

$110k - $140k

The Agentic Interfaces team at Datadog is seeking a Staff Applied Scientist to lead the evaluation strategy for AI agent integrations. This role focuses on defining and building the measurement systems that ensure AI agents interacting with Datadog's observability, security, and software delivery data are continuously improving. You will be responsible for establishing metrics that cover answer quality, tool selection accuracy, retrieval relevance, latency, and cost, and will partner with AI engineers to implement these systems. This is an opportunity to tackle open research questions in agent-data interaction, such as evaluating non-deterministic trajectories, scoring tool selection in large catalogs, and building scalable measurement systems that benefit both first-party and third-party agents.

$276k - $345k

Datadog's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join them. The APM product offers in-depth visibility into applications, helping users pinpoint performance issues, troubleshoot problems, and optimize services. This role will focus on agentic workflows, leading efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale. The ideal candidate is a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a history of driving impactful initiatives from start to finish. Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, valuing office culture while supporting work-life harmony.

$234k - $234k