Staff Software Engineer - Notebooks

We're on a mission to build the best observability platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale - trillions of data points per day - providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

Datadog Notebooks provide customers with a collaborative surface for ad-hoc data analysis, technical documentation, incident postmortems and runbooks. The power and flexibility of Notebooks also makes it the perfect place to integrate AI tools that can augment user workflows. Our vision is that in Notebooks users can collaborate with each other and with AI agents seamlessly.

We are looking for a product-oriented Staff Engineer to lead the development of AI-powered features. In this role you will work closely with product management to envision compelling workflows, coordinate with Datadog’s growing set of AI platform teams to better leverage internal tools, and build AI agents that can emulate deep technical expertise. You will help our engineers become more skilled and comfortable with AI-oriented development by building extensible systems, establishing standards, and leading by example. As a technical anchor in the organization, you will provide oversight and guidance for our full scope of systems AI and otherwise.

There is a tremendous opportunity for broad impact: we want to set the standard for AI development in observability products, starting in Notebooks but extending to Datadog’s other products.

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:

• Lead the development of high-visibility AI product initiatives
• Navigate tradeoffs between time-to-market and feature quality as we iterate towards excellence
• Keep up-to-date with standards and best practices in the rapidly evolving AI landscape
• Architect, implement and oversee systems from inception through deployment and delivery to customers
• Lead the development, maintenance and growth of key services, APIs and user experiences
• Provide technical oversight and leadership across organizational boundaries
• Mentor and grow other engineers on the team and beyond

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You have 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• You have several years of experience leading cross-team initiatives in product-oriented development
• You have strong customer empathy and a drive to make an impact
• You have interest or experience leveraging LLMs and other models to power feature development

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand 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 skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• 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