Staff Software Engineer - ML Observability
Datadog · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineering$234k–$300k/yrFull-time
What You’ll Do
- Drive design and implementation of LLM observability features.
- Ideate, prototype, and scale new product features to provide insights and drive improvements for generative AI systems.
- Work cross-functionally with other eng teams, product, UX, and applied science to iterate fast and find product-market fit.
- Develop and extend tools for tracing, evaluating, and debugging LLMs.
- Influence architecture decisions and mentor engineers to build resilient, high-performance systems.
- Stay close to customer pain points and use those insights to guide product and engineering priorities.
- Stay current with industry trends and advancements in machine learning and observability, driving innovation within the team.
Who You Are
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalable backend architectures.
- Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-powered or GenAI applications. Understanding of model internals, inference pipelines, evaluation techniques, and prompt engineering.
- Able to thrive in ambiguous, fast-changing spaces and have a product-oriented mindset.
- Excited to shape the next generation of AI observability tools from the ground up.
- Communicate clearly, think rigorously, and take pride in clean, maintainable code.
- Experience with observability tools/platforms.