The Observability Data Platform (ODP) powers the core of Datadog’s telemetry systems, handling exabytes of multimodal observability data. As AI agents become first-class consumers of telemetry, ODP is evolving to meet their demands - scaling with explosive data growth, exposing new query mechanisms, rethinking how telemetry is stored, transformed, and served, and enforcing guardrails that ensure security and reliability.
Our team's new focus is to build an intelligent control plane for production systems. This involves moving beyond passive monitoring to create a platform where AI agents can safely and effectively take action in live environments. To achieve this, we are integrating techniques from symbolic reasoning, formal methods, and generative AI.
We are looking for an experienced Staff Applied Scientist with a background that spans systems engineering, AI, and formal reasoning. You have expertise in areas like causal modeling, generative simulation, runtime verification, or reinforcement learning, and are motivated to apply these skills to build reliable systems.
You will join the team behind Datadog’s most ambitious projects: evolving observability infrastructure for stochastic, self-improving systems.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
Who You Are:
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
