Datadog · 3 months ago
Senior Software Engineer - AI Code Gen - Agent Engineer
New York, New York, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$187K/yr - $240K/yr
5+ years expDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on digital transformation and infrastructure monitoring. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on AI-assisted tools that enhance developer productivity by generating tests, fixing bugs, and improving performance.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Work closely with our users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge and delightful LLM-based agents
Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them with Datadog products
Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship
Follow the latest research on LLM prompting, agents, and code editing
Work with other Datadog teams to expand capabilities, for example integrating with the Datadog IDE extensions to deliver a CoPilot-like assistant, or Dynamic Instrumentation to collect more runtime data from production and pre-production environments
Qualification
Required
You're a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience (Go, Java, Python) who values code simplicity and performance
You've shipped software that uses LLMs to production
You are passionate about Generative AI and its ability to help software engineers be more productive
You have relevant experience with Large Language Models, large-scale systems and data sets, machine learning, or adjacent fields
You are a great community ambassador and can drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution
You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
You have experience writing developer tools (such as IDEs, static code analysis tools, or compilers)
Benefits
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
A 401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
A discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthIndex VenturesOpenView
2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
Leadership Team
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder, CEO
Alexis Le-Quoc
Co-founder & CTO
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