Datadog · 11 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - IDE AI Experiences - LLM Engineer
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$187K/yr - $240K/yr
5+ years expDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on delivering cloud monitoring solutions. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop AI-focused IDE experiences that enhance developer productivity and integrate with their existing tools.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code as part of the Datadog MCP server, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them within our customer’s IDE
Help conceptualize and build innovative UIs within the Datadog Cursor / VSCode extension that work hand in hand with our groundbreaking AI experiences
Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship
Follow the latest research on LLM prompt optimization, agents, and code editing
Support other Datadog product teams to help them build and productionize their developer-focused MCP toolings. For example, you’ll work with the Live Debugger team to create an agentic production debugging experience, delivering on the vision of 'one click to reproduce' for production errors
Qualification
Required
You're a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience 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)
You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience
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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