Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring Careers at Datadog - New York, New York | Apply Now!
Datadog
Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring Careers at Datadog - New York, New York | Apply Now!
Job Description
Role Overview
Datadog's Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) role represents a rare opportunity to shape the future of cloud observability. Join our APM team in New York, New York to lead revolutionary GenAI-powered agentic workflows that transform how developers troubleshoot and optimize distributed applications. APM provides unparalleled visibility through distributed tracing, continuous profiling, and seamless correlation with logs, metrics, and security signals.
As a technical leader, you'll design and deploy ML models that automate incident investigations, making Datadog the undisputed leader in intelligent observability. This hybrid role combines NYC's vibrant tech ecosystem with flexible work-life harmony, perfect for senior engineers passionate about production ML at scale.
Key Responsibilities at Datadog
- Lead GenAI Strategy: Own technical direction for agentic workflows across APM and related observability products
- Model Development: Build, train, evaluate, and deploy state-of-the-art GenAI/ML models for performance analysis
- Cross-Team Leadership: Guide multiple engineering teams through design, implementation, and production rollout
- Product Influence: Drive product roadmap with deep understanding of customer pain points in APM troubleshooting
- Automated Investigations: Collaborate on AI agents that automatically triage and resolve application performance issues
- Technical Mentorship: Shape engineering culture through design reviews, tech talks, and senior engineering community contributions
- Scale Solutions: Navigate ambiguity to deliver reliable ML systems handling petabytes of telemetry data daily
- Innovation Leadership: Benchmark against industry SOTA and pioneer new capabilities in observability AI
- End-to-End Ownership: Ship customer-facing features from research prototype to production excellence
Qualifications & Requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or equivalent with 10+ years engineering experience
- 4+ years leading cross-team GenAI/ML initiatives with proven production impact
- Deep expertise across the ML stack: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
- Experience with LLMs, RAG systems, and agentic architectures in production environments
- Strong systems engineering background comfortable with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Product-minded engineer who can translate customer needs into technical requirements
- Excellent communicator who thrives leading through influence across engineering, product, and design
Bonus: Experience with observability tooling, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), or performance profiling.
Salary & Benefits
Datadog offers competitive total compensation for senior staff engineers in NYC, including base salary, significant equity, and performance bonuses. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- Family health insurance with low deductibles
- Fitness reimbursements up to $100/month
- Commuter benefits covering MTA and PATH
- Professional development budget for conferences like NeurIPS, re:Invent
- Unlimited PTO with wellness days
- Hybrid NYC office with modern collaboration spaces
- 401(k) matching and financial planning
- Parental leave and family support programs
Why Join Datadog?
Datadog powers the world's most innovative companies with cloud-scale observability. As a Senior Staff GenAI Engineer, you'll work on problems that matter with engineers who ship daily. Our NYC headquarters fosters creativity through spontaneous collaboration while supporting hybrid flexibility.
Be part of pioneering agentic APM - where AI doesn't just alert, it investigates and resolves. Join 3,000+ Datadogs building the future of observability at unprecedented scale. With products monitoring 800M+ containers monthly, your work impacts Fortune 500 engineering teams worldwide.
Datadog's engineering culture emphasizes ownership, innovation, and customer obsession. Senior leaders like you shape our technical vision while mentoring the next generation of observability experts.
How to Apply
Ready to lead GenAI innovation in APM? Apply now for immediate consideration. Include your GitHub/resume showcasing production ML impact and availability for NYC hybrid work. Datadog is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity.
Join us in making observability intelligent. Your leadership will define how developers experience application performance forever.
Locations
- New York, New York, United States
Salary
262,500 - 440,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Generative AIintermediate
- Machine Learningintermediate
- Application Performance Monitoringintermediate
- Distributed Tracingintermediate
- Cloud Observabilityintermediate
- DevOpsintermediate
- Pythonintermediate
- LLM Fine-tuningintermediate
- Agentic Workflowsintermediate
- Model Deploymentintermediate
- Kubernetesintermediate
- AWSintermediate
- Telemetry Analysisintermediate
- Profiling Toolsintermediate
- Incident Troubleshootingintermediate
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related scientific field or equivalent practical experience (experience)
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years leading cross-team GenAI/ML initiatives (experience)
- Proven track record shipping large-scale GenAI/ML models in production environments (experience)
- Deep expertise in building, training, evaluating, and deploying ML models at scale (experience)
- Strong product mindset with experience influencing product direction through technical leadership (experience)
- Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring engineering teams (experience)
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical owner for GenAI initiatives within Datadog APM, leading design and deployment across teams
- Guide long-term strategy for agentic workflows and GenAI features in APM and related products
- Build, benchmark, and optimize GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop automated investigation and triaging tools
- Influence product roadmap by advocating for end-user needs with strong product thinking
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical talks, and working groups
- Navigate technical ambiguity and scaling challenges with clear direction
- Contribute to Datadog's engineering community through thought leadership
- Drive end-to-end delivery of ML/AI-powered APM features
Benefits
- general: Competitive equity package with significant ownership potential
- general: Comprehensive health insurance covering family members
- general: Generous commuter benefits for NYC public transit
- general: Fitness reimbursements including gym memberships and wellness programs
- general: Professional development stipend for conferences and certifications
- general: Unlimited PTO with encouraged work-life harmony
- general: Hybrid workplace with collaborative NYC office culture
- general: 401(k) matching and financial planning services
- general: Parental leave and family-friendly policies
- general: Daily catered meals and fully stocked kitchens
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Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring Careers at Datadog - New York, New York | Apply Now!
Job Description
Role Overview
Datadog's Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) role represents a rare opportunity to shape the future of cloud observability. Join our APM team in New York, New York to lead revolutionary GenAI-powered agentic workflows that transform how developers troubleshoot and optimize distributed applications. APM provides unparalleled visibility through distributed tracing, continuous profiling, and seamless correlation with logs, metrics, and security signals.
As a technical leader, you'll design and deploy ML models that automate incident investigations, making Datadog the undisputed leader in intelligent observability. This hybrid role combines NYC's vibrant tech ecosystem with flexible work-life harmony, perfect for senior engineers passionate about production ML at scale.
Key Responsibilities at Datadog
- Lead GenAI Strategy: Own technical direction for agentic workflows across APM and related observability products
- Model Development: Build, train, evaluate, and deploy state-of-the-art GenAI/ML models for performance analysis
- Cross-Team Leadership: Guide multiple engineering teams through design, implementation, and production rollout
- Product Influence: Drive product roadmap with deep understanding of customer pain points in APM troubleshooting
- Automated Investigations: Collaborate on AI agents that automatically triage and resolve application performance issues
- Technical Mentorship: Shape engineering culture through design reviews, tech talks, and senior engineering community contributions
- Scale Solutions: Navigate ambiguity to deliver reliable ML systems handling petabytes of telemetry data daily
- Innovation Leadership: Benchmark against industry SOTA and pioneer new capabilities in observability AI
- End-to-End Ownership: Ship customer-facing features from research prototype to production excellence
Qualifications & Requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or equivalent with 10+ years engineering experience
- 4+ years leading cross-team GenAI/ML initiatives with proven production impact
- Deep expertise across the ML stack: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
- Experience with LLMs, RAG systems, and agentic architectures in production environments
- Strong systems engineering background comfortable with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Product-minded engineer who can translate customer needs into technical requirements
- Excellent communicator who thrives leading through influence across engineering, product, and design
Bonus: Experience with observability tooling, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), or performance profiling.
Salary & Benefits
Datadog offers competitive total compensation for senior staff engineers in NYC, including base salary, significant equity, and performance bonuses. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- Family health insurance with low deductibles
- Fitness reimbursements up to $100/month
- Commuter benefits covering MTA and PATH
- Professional development budget for conferences like NeurIPS, re:Invent
- Unlimited PTO with wellness days
- Hybrid NYC office with modern collaboration spaces
- 401(k) matching and financial planning
- Parental leave and family support programs
Why Join Datadog?
Datadog powers the world's most innovative companies with cloud-scale observability. As a Senior Staff GenAI Engineer, you'll work on problems that matter with engineers who ship daily. Our NYC headquarters fosters creativity through spontaneous collaboration while supporting hybrid flexibility.
Be part of pioneering agentic APM - where AI doesn't just alert, it investigates and resolves. Join 3,000+ Datadogs building the future of observability at unprecedented scale. With products monitoring 800M+ containers monthly, your work impacts Fortune 500 engineering teams worldwide.
Datadog's engineering culture emphasizes ownership, innovation, and customer obsession. Senior leaders like you shape our technical vision while mentoring the next generation of observability experts.
How to Apply
Ready to lead GenAI innovation in APM? Apply now for immediate consideration. Include your GitHub/resume showcasing production ML impact and availability for NYC hybrid work. Datadog is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity.
Join us in making observability intelligent. Your leadership will define how developers experience application performance forever.
Locations
- New York, New York, United States
Salary
262,500 - 440,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Generative AIintermediate
- Machine Learningintermediate
- Application Performance Monitoringintermediate
- Distributed Tracingintermediate
- Cloud Observabilityintermediate
- DevOpsintermediate
- Pythonintermediate
- LLM Fine-tuningintermediate
- Agentic Workflowsintermediate
- Model Deploymentintermediate
- Kubernetesintermediate
- AWSintermediate
- Telemetry Analysisintermediate
- Profiling Toolsintermediate
- Incident Troubleshootingintermediate
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related scientific field or equivalent practical experience (experience)
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years leading cross-team GenAI/ML initiatives (experience)
- Proven track record shipping large-scale GenAI/ML models in production environments (experience)
- Deep expertise in building, training, evaluating, and deploying ML models at scale (experience)
- Strong product mindset with experience influencing product direction through technical leadership (experience)
- Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring engineering teams (experience)
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical owner for GenAI initiatives within Datadog APM, leading design and deployment across teams
- Guide long-term strategy for agentic workflows and GenAI features in APM and related products
- Build, benchmark, and optimize GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop automated investigation and triaging tools
- Influence product roadmap by advocating for end-user needs with strong product thinking
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical talks, and working groups
- Navigate technical ambiguity and scaling challenges with clear direction
- Contribute to Datadog's engineering community through thought leadership
- Drive end-to-end delivery of ML/AI-powered APM features
Benefits
- general: Competitive equity package with significant ownership potential
- general: Comprehensive health insurance covering family members
- general: Generous commuter benefits for NYC public transit
- general: Fitness reimbursements including gym memberships and wellness programs
- general: Professional development stipend for conferences and certifications
- general: Unlimited PTO with encouraged work-life harmony
- general: Hybrid workplace with collaborative NYC office culture
- general: 401(k) matching and financial planning services
- general: Parental leave and family-friendly policies
- general: Daily catered meals and fully stocked kitchens
Tags & Categories
Answer 10 quick questions to check your fit for Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring Careers at Datadog - New York, New York | Apply Now! @ Datadog.
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