engineering
Posted 5 days agoSenior Software Engineer - AI (EMEA)
at Datadoghq
Bordeaux, FranceHybrid
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences across Datadog’s visualization and investigation surfaces.
- Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes.
- Drive innovation in context engineering, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and AI application reliability.
- Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments.
Requirements
- The team is a highly product-oriented organization, building AI-native experiences that help customers understand, investigate, and interact with complex operational data.
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership in applying AI technologies to customer-facing product experiences, helping shape how users interact with Datadog through agents, conversational interfaces, and intelligent investigation workflows.
- You will partner across engineering and product teams to develop reliable, scalable, and trustworthy AI-powered experiences while helping establish AI engineering expertise within the broader organization.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices across the Data Visualization organization and broader Graphing group. Who You Are:
- experience and currently operate at or near Staff Engineer scope. You have hands-on
- experience delivering production AI-powered products and customer-facing experiences using LLM technologies. You have
- experience collaborating across multiple teams and influencing technical direction without direct authority. •
- Experience with agentic systems, conversational interfaces, AI-assisted investigations, observability, data visualization, or developer tools is a plus.
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.
- It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
- Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
- Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
Additional details
- This role will join Datadog’s Data Visualization organization, a team responsible for the visualization experiences that power dashboards, notebooks, investigations, and product workflows used across the platform.
- 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:
- Partner with product and engineering teams to improve investigation workflows and help customers discover insights more efficiently.
- experience building reliable systems that manage model non-determinism through evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, and operational excellence.
- You approach engineering through a product mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact. You have
- Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know 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 experience, we encourage you to apply.
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking