# Senior Software Engineer - AI Code Gen - Agent Engineer

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $187k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Python, LLMs, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Prompt Engineering, Agent Tools, Developer Tools, Large-Scale Systems
**Posted:** 2026-01-21

> Build AI-assisted tools using LLMs to generate tests, fix bugs, and boost developer productivity at Datadog. Requires 5+ years backend experience in Go/Java/Python and shipping LLM software to production.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do:

- Work closely with our users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge and delightful LLM-based agents.
- Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them with Datadog products.
- Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship.
- Follow the latest research on LLM prompting, agents, and code editing.
- Work with other Datadog teams to expand capabilities, for example integrating with the Datadog IDE extensions to deliver a CoPilot-like assistant, or Dynamic Instrumentation to collect more runtime data from production and pre-production environments.

## Who You Are:

- You’re a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience (**Go**, **Java**, **Python**) who values code simplicity and performance. You’ve shipped software that uses LLMs to production.
- You are passionate about Generative AI and its ability to help software engineers be more productive.
- You have relevant experience with Large Language Models, large-scale systems and data sets, machine learning, or adjacent fields.
- You are a great community ambassador and can drive hard technical conversations towards a pragmatic solution.
- You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers.
- You have experience writing developer tools (such as IDEs, static code analysis tools, or compilers).

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