Senior Software Engineer - Bits AI SRE | Datadog Careers

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$187,000–$240,000 / yr
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17 days ago

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This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $156,037–$218,293 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $187k for comparable roles.

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Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 122 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,000–$240,000 across 62 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer - Bits AI SRE | Datadog Careers

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Join our dynamic new team as a senior product-minded engineer to develop AI-assisted product experiences that streamline investigation and resolution for Datadog customers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build conversational workflows, guided remediations, and codefixes using Go or similar languages, alongside the latest LLM technologies. Your day-to-day involves rapid prototyping, testing, and iterating on backend systems to ensure reliable AI-driven solutions are production-ready. With a focus on integrating AI outputs into meaningful user actions, you will also work closely with partner teams to expand remediation capabilities and support operational automation. Ideal candidates have at least five years of experience in building production systems, strong prompt engineering skills, and a passion for applying AI to enhance software engineering practices.

Skills

Go LLM-based systems Prompt engineering Evaluation loops Kubernetes Python PostgreSQL CI/CD Docker GitHub GitLab Jenkins Slack Zoom Confluence Jira Terraform AWS GCP Azure Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Develop customer-facing AI systems for chat, remediations, and codefixes to resolve production issues.
  • Build reliable backend infrastructure connecting AI outputs to operational actions and remediation capabilities.
  • Prototype and iterate rapidly on new product features based on applied AI workflows.
  • Enhance prompt engineering and evaluation loops to improve the reliability of AI-powered systems.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI features into existing Datadog products.

What we're looking for

  • At least 5 years of professional backend engineering experience with strong product mindset.
  • Expertise in building production systems using Go or similar languages.
  • Experience working with LLM-based systems and practical AI application development.
  • Proficiency in prompt engineering, evaluation, and iteration for LLM-powered systems.
  • Ability to quickly prototype, learn new technologies, and ship early versions of ideas.
  • Strong collaboration skills across product, design, and engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools daily and refine AI-generated output.

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