datadog

Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

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At a Glance

Location
United States
Experience
10+ years
Posted
2026-02-18T14:39:24-05:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering

Requirements

10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 4+ years leading cross-team technical initiatives.

Proven track record of leading large-scale GenAI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment

You’re highly proficient in model development, deployment, evaluation, and optimization, with hands-on experience in building end-to-end ML systems.

You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how

Datadog values people from all walks of life.

Compensation & Benefits

Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.

Have a lot of 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.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical owner for GenAI initiatives within APM, leading design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-powered features across multiple teams.

Guide long-term strategy and technical direction for GenAI workflows across APM and related products.

Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques.

Contribute to Datadog’s broader senior engineering community through thought leadership and collaboration on company-wide initiatives.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools.

Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user.