Senior Software Engineer (AI)

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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

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.

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Senior From the posting source

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About this role

Senior Software Engineer (AI) Madrid, Spain At Datadog, we leverage AI across our observability platform to improve monitoring, speed up incident resolution, and ensure data reliability for cloud applications. Datadog's Deployment Gates team builds customer-facing systems that decide whether software should ship to production. Deployment Gates sit directly in customers' CI/CD pipelines and use observability data to answer one of the hardest questions in software delivery: Given everything we know right now, is this deployment safe to proceed? In this role, you will: Work on an analysis service that prevents incidents by detecting faulty software changes in production before they reach clients Lead the design of progressive deployment automation, starting with zero-setup, conservative AI rules and evolving toward adaptive gates that learn from incidents and organizational patterns Design the foundation for autonomous remediation, connecting what changed in code to what broke in production, from blocking and rolling back unsafe deployments to proposing fixes and enforcing policies This is a highly product‑minded engineering role: you'll work from problem discovery and UX all the way to reliable, scalable production systems. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What you'll do: Build AI-driven deployment gates: Design and ship decision systems that evaluate customer deployments using CI/CD context and Datadog telemetry, producing safe, explainable

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