Senior Software Engineer - IDE AI Experiences - LLM Engineer
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Job Description
Were building a new team building to bring the power of Datadog to developers within AI-focused IDE experiences such as Cursor and GitHub Copilot.
Were looking for product-minded engineers who are excited about developer tools to help us quickly define and ship IDE experiences that make all Datadog customers 10x developers.
At Datadog we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds the creativity it brings to the table and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What Youll Do:
- 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 customers 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 youll 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.
Who You Are:
- Youre a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience who values code simplicity and performance. Youve 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
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks our Internal panel discussions
- Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
- Competitive global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
