# Senior Software Engineer - Bits AI SRE
**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $187K-$240K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, Backend Engineering, Ai Systems, Observability, Remediation, Automation, Evaluation Loops
**Posted:** 2026-05-06
> Builds reliable AI-powered systems for Bits AI SRE at Datadog, focusing on chat, remediations, and codefixes to resolve production issues. Requires 5+ years backend experience in Go, LLM prompt engineering, and productionizing AI workflows.
## Job Description
## What You'll Do

- Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to build and iterate on AI-powered product experiences in Bits AI SRE.
- Develop customer-facing systems across chat, remediations, and codefixes that help users resolve production issues more quickly.
- Work on prompts, evaluation loops, and backend systems to make applied AI workflows reliable, useful, and production-ready.
- Prototype quickly, test what works in the real world, and iterate rapidly to ship new product capabilities.
- Build the infrastructure and product logic needed to connect AI outputs to meaningful actions, including operational remediations and generated code changes.
- Collaborate with partner teams across Datadog to expand remediation capabilities and integrate with systems that support investigation, automation, and code generation.
- Follow the latest developments in LLM prompting, agent design, and applied AI product development, and bring strong judgment about what is practical to use in production.

## Who You Are

- Engineer with at least **5 years** of professional experience, strong backend engineering skills and product mindset.
- Experience building production systems in **Go** (or similar) and worked with **LLM**-based systems.
- Experience with **prompt engineering**, evaluation, and iteration for LLM-powered systems.
- Strong engineering fundamentals to productionize AI features.
- Comfortable in fast-moving environment with high ambiguity.
- **Bonus**: Experience with **Kubernetes** or production remediation/operational automation systems.
- **Requirement**: Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools and refine AI-generated output.

## Benefits and Growth

- Build tools for software engineers and use them to accelerate development.
- Influence on product direction and business impact.
- Work with skilled teammates.
- Competitive global benefits and continuous professional development.

**Salary**: $187,000—$240,000 USD
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