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Senior Software Engineer - AI (EMEA) joins the Data Visualization organization to build AI-native experiences for dashboards, notebooks, and investigation workflows. This role involves designing and delivering products that combine deterministic capabilities with LLM-powered features to provide trustworthy outcomes. You will lead technical efforts in context engineering, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and AI application reliability while establishing best practices across the broader Graphing group. The work focuses on creating conversational interfaces, agentic systems, and tools for users to interact with complex operational data. Key requirements include experience with LLM technologies, managing model non-determinism through testing strategies, and a product-oriented mindset. You will collaborate across teams to integrate capabilities into third-party AI platforms while solving problems related to observability, data visualization, and developer tools to help customers discover insights more efficiently within the platform's ecosystem.
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Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences across visualization and investigation surfaces.
Develop systems that combine deterministic capabilities with LLM-powered features to ensure trustworthy customer outcomes.
Drive innovation in context engineering, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and AI application reliability.
Build integrations for Datadog capabilities within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments.
Improve investigation workflows to help customers discover insights more efficiently.
Establish AI engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship across the organization.
What we're looking for
You must have extensive software engineering experience operating at or near the Staff Engineer level.
You must have hands-on experience delivering production AI-powered products and customer-facing experiences using LLM technologies.
You must have experience building reliable systems that manage model non-determinism through evaluation frameworks and testing strategies.
You should possess a product mindset to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact.
You must have experience collaborating across multiple teams and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
Experience with agentic systems, conversational interfaces, AI-assisted investigations, observability, data visualization, or developer tools is preferred.