Senior Staff GenAI Engineer – Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Position Available In New York, New York

Senior Staff GenAI Engineer – Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
New York, New York, USA
We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team. APM is a product which provides deep visibility into applications, enabling users to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize services. With distributed tracing, profiling, out-of-the-box dashboards, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data, Datadog APM provides some of the deepest and most structured visibility into the health and performance of applications. This context sets us up for an opportunity to be the world leaders in agentic investigations and incident troubleshooting. You’ll act as a technical leader within the APM group, focused on agentic workflows. You’ll lead efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellentmunication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture – the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

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 engineeringmunity through thought leadership and collaboration onpany-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.
Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.
Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups.

Who You Are:

You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
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.
Ability to drive initiatives across cross-functional teams, and solve ambiguous challenges
You are passionate about mentoring others and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to .

Benefits and Growth:

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.
Datadog offers apetitive salary and equity package, and may include variablepensation. Actualpensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class,prehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and 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:
$272,000—$340,000 USD

About Datadog:

Datadog (

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DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rarebination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solveplexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and be part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-firstmunity w we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.