Datadog

Distinguished Architect, AI

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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$300k - $484k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Provide thought leadership on AI and LLM technologies and influence technical and business decision makers
  • Advise founders, infrastructure leaders, and research leads on AI adoption, architecture, best practices, and industry trends
  • Lead deep-dive architecture reviews and design engagements for high-throughput, hyperscale AI workloads
  • Identify emerging AI-native technology shifts and communicate them to Datadog Product Management
  • Co-create custom observability integrations and solutions with Product Solutions Architecture
  • Collaborate with Product Solutions Architecture, Sales, Sales Engineering, and Marketing on technical resources
  • Assist leadership with recruiting and hiring talent for Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO teams

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience with at-scale distributed systems architecture, high-performance computing, or large-scale infrastructure
  • Deep familiarity with the AI/LLM ecosystem, accelerator hardware such as GPUs and TPUs, and modern orchestration frameworks
  • Deep hands-on understanding of AI/LLM operations and LLM observability
  • Experience influencing elite individual contributors, research scientists, and technical founders
  • Excellent customer-facing presentation, verbal communication, and written communication skills
  • Ability to connect technical capabilities to business objectives, value realization, and ROI
  • Ability to travel by automobile, train, or air up to 50% of the time
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field required; master’s degree preferred

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace
  • Best-in-breed onboarding
  • Generous global benefits
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
  • 401(k) plan and match
  • Paid time off
  • Fitness reimbursements
  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan

Tech Stack

Datadog

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Datadog

1,001-5,000 employees

Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

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