Senior AI Engineer - APM Integrations

Requirements:

• 6+ years building backend systems (Go, Java, or .NET) with a focus on simplicity, correctness, and performance.
• Proven experience delivering LLM/agent features to production.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and measuring impact with clear metrics.
• Strong ML fundamentals including understanding of the ML lifecycle and statistics for experiments.
• Experience with microservices performance and production operations mindset.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build agent workflows for integrations from plan to implementation and validation.
• Create systems to make changes matching Datadog conventions and customer expectations.
• Generate integration code and tests reflecting real customer workloads.
• Design evaluation harnesses to prevent regressions and automate processes.
• Implement portfolio-level automation for various scenarios.
• Collaborate with PMs, support engineers, and integration-owning teams to embed systems in daily workflows.

Bonus Point:

• Hands-on experience with distributed tracing stacks, profilers, and logs/metrics pipelines.
• Experience with planning/agent frameworks and developer tools.
• Familiarity with semantic conventions, scenario-based testing, and cross-language porting at scale.

Perks and Benefits:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
• An inclusive company culture and access to employee resource groups.
• Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive global benefits.