About the company
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
Responsibilities
- Define and deliver how Datadog's AI agents discover the right context and tools to answer natural-language questions accurately and at scale
- Stay on top of industry trends in UI and agentic search experiences and capabilities
- Collaborate with Applied AI teams to integrate ranking, personalization, and recommendation models that scale across both human and agentic users
- Define and monitor KPIs for search quality, adoption, and downstream impact on user productivity; use them to drive data-informed decision making
- Engage directly with customers and internal product teams to deeply understand search journeys across query editors, global navigation, and natural-language agent interfaces
Requirements
- You have experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems
- You are familiar with or very interested in MCP servers and differences between human and agentic UX
- You have a sharp eye for design and strong opinions on the micro-interactions — keyboard navigation, autocomplete behavior, loading states — that separate a good search experience from a great one
- You have a strong technical background, and sense of the day in the life of an engineer operating large-scale data systems
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend your ideas to technical stakeholders and executives alike
- You have 5+ years product experience
Conditions
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Employee-focused best in class onboarding
- Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture