Senior Software Engineer - AI Code Gen - Agent Engineer

About the position

We’re a new team building AI-assisted tools to make Datadog developers more effective, by autonomously generating tests, fixing bugs, and improving performance. We’re looking for a product-minded generalist to help us quickly define and ship products that make all Datadog customers 10x developers. 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.

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.

Requirements

• 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

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business.
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn.
• Competitive global benefits.
• Continuous professional development.
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits.
• 401(k) plan and match.
• Paid time off.
• Fitness reimbursements.
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan.