Staff GenAI Engineer, Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Datadog
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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.
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Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a technical leadership role within the APM team focused on agentic workflows and automated investigation tools. You will serve as the technical owner for GenAI initiatives, where you will design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale to provide deeper visibility into application performance and troubleshooting. The role involves building and benchmarking models using state-of-the-art techniques while guiding long-term strategy across multiple teams. You will work with cross-functional teams to develop tools that solve complex problems in distributed tracing and service optimization. Required skills include extensive experience in model development, deployment, and evaluation, as well as proficiency in utilizing AI coding tools. This position addresses the technical challenge of creating agentic systems for identifying performance bottlenecks and triaging issues within complex software environments.
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