Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

DataDog
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Product ManagementExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving"]

Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on GenAI/ML within Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring team. Lead design, development, and deployment of ML-powered features, steer GenAI strategy across APM, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to build automated investigation/triaging tools and user-focused product direction.

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DataDog
DataDog
1 year ago

Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

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Job Summary

Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on GenAI/ML within Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring team. Lead design, development, and deployment of ML-powered features, steer GenAI strategy across APM, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to build automated investigation/triaging tools and user-focused product direction.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as the technical owner for GenAI initiatives within APM, leading design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-powered features across multiple teams
  • •Guide long-term strategy and technical direction for GenAI workflows across APM and related products
  • •Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques
  • •Contribute to Datadog’s broader senior engineering community through thought leadership and collaboration on company-wide initiatives
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDental401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience; 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 4+ years leading cross-team technical initiatives
  • •Proven track record of leading large-scale GenAI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment
  • •Strong proficiency in model development, deployment, evaluation, and optimization with hands-on experience in end-to-end ML systems
  • •Ability to drive cross-functional initiatives and solve ambiguous challenges
  • •Passion for mentoring others and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture; experience leading design reviews, talks, and working groups
Experience:10+ yearsGenAIMLAIGenAI/ML
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GenAIMLModel developmentDeploymentEvaluationOptimizationEnd-to-end ML systemsCross-functional collaborationDesign reviews

Company Brief

DataDog
Provides a cloud-native monitoring and observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals to help engineering, operations, and security teams monitor and troubleshoot modern applications and infrastructure.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2010
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