Staff AI Engineer - Agent Observability

Job summary

Responsibilities

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…

• Drive design and implementation of LLM observability features.
• Ideate, prototype, and scale new product features to provide insights and drive improvements for generative AI systems
• Work cross-functionally with other eng teams, product, UX, and applied science to iterate fast and find product-market fit
• Develop and extend tools for tracing, evaluating, and debugging LLMs
• Influence architecture decisions and mentor engineers to build resilient, high-performance systems

What they're looking for

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalable backend architectures
• Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-powered or GenAI applications.
• Understanding of model internals, inference pipelines, evaluation techniques, and prompt engineering
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-changing spaces and have a product-oriented mindset