Senior AI Engineer - APM Experiences

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Salary

$187K-$240K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

83% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior AI Engineer - APM Experiences New York, New York, USA The opportunity Datadog's APM Experiences team owns the core product experience for Application Performance Monitoring - including distributed tracing, service representation, and more. We're building a new wave of AI-powered capabilities that help customers detect, resolve, and prevent performance issues faster. In this role, you will lead end‑to‑end development of LLM- and Agent‑based features that can: Debug and investigate application performance issues down to the root cause, as both a developer assistant and a fully autonomous agent Proactively recommend performance and reliability-based optimizations to prevent the next incident Automatically create intelligent monitors and SLOs for the most important business flows and critical paths This is a highly product‑minded engineering role: you'll work from problem discovery and UX all the way to reliable, scalable production systems. What you'll do Shape AI experiences for APM. Design and ship LLM/agentic workflows that analyze traces, metrics, logs, and other telemetry to generate diagnoses, explanations, and guided fixes. Own the full loop. Prototype quickly, define success metrics and evals, run experiments, iterate, and ultimately productionize for scale and reliability. Build robust agent systems. Develop tools, retrieval and planning strategies, and guardrails; manage prompts/evals; design fallbacks and human‑in‑the‑loop paths. Integrate with Datadog's platform. Leverage surfaces like Trace Explorer, Service Catalog, monitors, and workflows to deliver end‑to‑end value in the APM UI. Partner deeply. Collaborate with PM, Design, and partner teams to build cohesive experiences. Raise the bar on engineering. Write performant, maintainable backend code, own

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