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📍 New York, New York, United States
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The way products get built is changing. Agents write a growing share of shipped interfaces, designers work in code, and a design system's output is bigger than a component library. At Datadog we're redefining ours for that world, and evolving how the product looks and feels at the same time. DRUIDS is the design system behind every Datadog surface, used daily by more than a hundred designers and thousands of engineers across thirty-plus products. You'll lead the team that owns it: designers and design engineers who set the system's direction, hold the quality bar for what ships, and build the tools that make designing in code the default way to work. The team partners closely with product designers, frontend engineers and PMs across the company. This is a hands-on leadership role in a technical, engineering-forward company. You'll be expected to have a point of view and defend it, to be the person the design org asks about quality, and to make the call when work isn't good enough yet. Much of what a design system should be right now hasn't been settled — here or anywhere else. If you're a designer who never stopped making things, and you'd rather decide what a system should be than maintain one that already exists, this is the role. 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 Lead the team and set its direction Decide what DRUIDS owns, what it ships, and what stays with product teams. Own where the system goes next. Have a view on what a design system should be, and argue for it. Turn direction into a roadmap, and work with partners on what gets built and when. Coach the designers and design engineers on your team, be clear about what each person owns, and hire as the team grows. Own craft and quality Own the craft and quality of components, patterns,

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role We are looking for customer-focused software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. As an FDSWE, you will work with our customers and OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that solve their most difficult problems. You will design abstractions to solve customer problems, and then use them to scale our speed and quality of delivery across all Forward Deployed engagements. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architects, and Customer Success Managers who work on the same account. You will also work with our Research and Applied Product and Engineering teams to provide insightful customer feedback. This role is based in NYC. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role, you will: Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail. Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach. Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments. Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure. Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback Contribute to internal knowledge bases, codifying best practices and sharing insights gained from customer engagements to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function. You’ll thrive in this role if

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $232K/yr

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Datadog is entering a new chapter in how our product looks, feels and operates. We’re building a small, high-leverage Design Lab team to define that evolution, and we’re looking for a Staff Visual Designer to help author it. Our design system powers everything we ship. Now we’re ready to evolve it. As Datadog expands into AI-driven experiences and more complex product surfaces, the visual language needs to grow with it. We’re looking for someone who can help define that next phase, someone with taste, judgment, and the confidence to shape how the product feels at scale. 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 Define and evolve Datadog’s visual language across product surfaces. Establish the visual quality bar for the platform. Lead exploratory and concept work that pushes our system forward. Translate bold visual ideas into scalable patterns that can live inside a design system. Partner deeply with Brand, Product Design, and Design Systems to unify expression across product and marketing. Influence executive stakeholders through clear, compelling visual storytelling. Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they become systemized. Help shape how visual direction is integrated into our design process. You will report directly to the Design Director and work as part of a small, focused team defining the future state before it scales across hundreds of designers and engineers. Who You Are You have 10+ years of experience in visual and/or product design You have led a meaningful visual evolution or rebrand within a mature product ecosystem. You have strong taste and are comfortable defending a point of view. You know how to translate brand into scalable product systems. You think in systems, but you’re motivated by craft. Yo

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $232K/yr

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Datadog is entering a new chapter in how our product looks, feels and operates. We're building a small, high-leverage Design Lab team to define that evolution, and we're looking for a Senior Staff Visual Designer to author it. Our design system powers everything we ship. Now we're ready to evolve it. As Datadog expands into AI-driven experiences and more complex product surfaces, the visual language needs to grow with it. This is the role that decides what that language is — someone with taste, judgment, and the confidence to set a direction and defend it. 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 Define and evolve Datadog’s visual language across product surfaces. Lead exploratory and concept work, creating a range of distinct visual directions for the next generation of the product. Synthesize product context, research, references, and stakeholder input into clear visual principles and a coherent point of view. Establish the quality bar for typography, color, composition, iconography, imagery, motion, and visual expression across the platform. Create high-fidelity product exemplars and prototypes that make an emerging direction tangible. Partner deeply with Brand, Product Design, Motion, and Design Systems to test and refine the direction across different surfaces. Influence executives and senior stakeholders through clear, persuasive visual storytelling. Guide and critique the work of other designers, helping the visual direction remain coherent as it evolves. Help shape how visual exploration, critique, and craft are integrated into Datadog’s design process. You will report directly to the Design Director and work as part of a small, focused team defining the future state before it scales across hundreds of designers and engineers. Who Yo

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $204K/yr

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The opportunity Datadog’s Infrastructure products help engineers understand and operate the systems their applications depend on. Our customers work in complex environments like Kubernetes and serverless, where infrastructure changes constantly, information is dense, and decisions about reliability, performance, and cost are closely connected. We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join Modern Compute, with an initial focus on Containers Autoscaling. Autoscaling helps engineering teams make better decisions about how their applications and infrastructure use resources. Designing these experiences requires making deeply technical systems understandable, helping customers act with confidence, and fitting into the tools and workflows they already use. The team is rethinking how workload and cluster autoscaling come together as a more coherent product experience. This includes how customers get started, understand recommendations, evaluate value, and safely apply changes across their environments. The work also connects to other parts of Datadog, including observability, Cloud Cost Management, permissions, and AI-assisted workflows. As a Staff Product Designer, you will help define that direction and lead the work from early problem framing through shipped product. You will partner closely with product and engineering, bring a high level of interaction and visual craft to complex workflows, and help raise the quality of design across Modern Compute. 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 help our Datadogs find a work-life rhythm that works for them. What you’ll do Lead end-to-end product design for Modern Compute, initially focused on our Autoscaling product. Help define the product direction for an area that is still evolving, from early framing and exploration through detailed design and delivery. Design clear, trustwort

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join the APM (Application Performance Monitoring) team. This team is focused on helping engineers agentically troubleshoot and optimize their applications. You'll learn the domain and proactively spot areas for improvement, getting stakeholder buy-in as needed. You'll own your design work end-to-end while helping shape broader product direction. You'll also hold a high bar for quality across the team and help other designers build support for their decisions. 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: Become a design leader within APM by proactively identifying opportunities and shaping the design strategy across multiple product areas and workflows. Partner closely with PMs and Engineers to ship intuitive experiences, balancing user needs with platform scalability and engineering constraints. Conduct and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to identify pain points, validate solutions, and guide roadmap decisions. Communicate design rationale clearly and persuasively across design, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders. Mentor and support other designers by providing feedback, sharing frameworks and workflows, and helping raise the overall design quality bar across the organization. Prototype in code to rapidly explore ideas and validate concepts. Contribute to production code using AI-assisted workflows to ensure execution matches design intent. Help the team adopt AI-enabled design workflows. Who You Are: You have 10+ years of experience in digital product design. Your portfolio demonstrates a strong track record of designing and shipping complex technical products. You use AI-assisted workflows to prototype and rapidly iterate. You have a track record of connecting

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The Web team brings OpenAI’s brand, mission, and products to life online. We work across brand design, marketing, communications, and engineering to create clear, accessible web experiences for a global audience. This role is dedicated to Business Marketing, helping organizations understand how OpenAI’s products can support their work. We combine thoughtful storytelling, strong visual craft, and intuitive user experiences to make complex ideas approachable and useful. About the Role We’re looking for a hands-on Web Designer to create exceptional experiences for business audiences on OpenAI.com . You’ll help people understand our products, explore their relevance to their organizations, and find the right next step. As an individual contributor, you’ll own projects from early exploration through launch, working closely with engineers, brand designers, marketers, and writers. You’ll bring strong visual judgment and UX thinking to the work, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints while contributing to a cohesive experience across the site. This role is based in New York, NY. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Own design from concept through implementation, developing information architecture, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity responsive designs. Translate complex product capabilities and business use cases into clear stories and compelling web experiences. Design product, solution, and campaign experiences that help business audiences discover, evaluate, and take action. Partner with engineers, brand designers, marketers, and writers to shape ideas, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and ship polished work. Evolve and apply our web design system, creating reusable patterns that support both consistency and expressive storytelling. Stay involved through implementation and design QA, paying close attention to accessibil

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📍 New York, United States· Full-time
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We are investing in agentic AI and need a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design and delivery of these systems. This is a foundational hire: you will own both the agent-facing workstreams — pipelines, orchestration, conversational interfaces — and the underlying context layer that makes them reliable, including memory management, knowledge graph integration, and retrieval infrastructure. You will work closely with data engineers, project leads, and client stakeholders, and play a key role in shaping how Lynx builds and ships AI solutions at scale. What This Involves: Lead the architecture and delivery of agentic AI systems end-to-end: agents, orchestration, tool use, and multi-step reasoning workflows. Own the context layer: design and implement memory architectures (episodic, semantic, working memory) and integrate GraphRAG and knowledge graph retrieval into agentic pipelines. Build robust RAG systems — including vector retrieval, graph traversal, and hybrid search — and ensure retrieval quality through evaluation frameworks. Translate client requirements into technical designs, presenting approaches and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Define standards and reusable patterns for agentic AI development that other engineers at Lynx can build on. Set up observability, evaluation, and monitoring pipelines to ensure AI systems perform correctly in production. Requirements: 5–8 years of software or ML engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years building LLM-based or agentic AI systems in production. Deep hands-on experience with agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar) and LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.). Strong understanding of agent design patterns: ReAct, planning loops, tool use, multi-agent coordination, and memory architectures. Practical experience with GraphRAG or knowledge graph-based retrieval (e.g., Neo4j, Microsoft GraphRAG) and vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, etc.). Proficiency in

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $86K/yr

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Datadog’s Technical Solutions organization includes 1,200+ sales engineers, support engineers, post-sales experts, and solution architects. They run on an ecosystem of enterprise platforms and internal tools that directly shape how we serve customers. Technical Solutions Operations (“TSO”) owns that ecosystem. We manage the full lifecycle of the systems TS depends on: Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, and a growing portfolio of off-the-shelf and purpose-built tools. We do the work to operate, maintain, and evolve the platforms powering daily workflows across TS. When a vendor tool reaches its limits, we extend it through customization, integration, or targeted solution development, tapping internal partners across Datadog as needed. We’re looking for a Systems Engineer who wants to own enterprise platforms end-to-end. You go from understanding the business process, to designing the right solution (whether that’s configuration, integration, or code), to measuring whether it actually moved the needle. 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: Own enterprise systems through their full lifecycle. You’ll be the technical owner for one or more platforms that TS relies on daily. That means understanding how the system is used, where it’s falling short, what’s coming from the vendor roadmap, and what needs to change. You drive improvements from assessment through implementation. Engineer solutions that create leverage. Not every problem is solved by configuration. You’ll build and evolve enterprise systems, integrations, automations, and internal tools that multiply the effectiveness of 1,200+ technical experts. Where AI can make a solution smarter (e.g., intelligent routing, automated triage, agent-assisted workflows), you'll include AI in the initial design, no

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The Technical Success team helps OpenAI’s customers realize meaningful and sustained value from our technology. We partner with customers throughout their journey—from initial exploration and solution design to production implementation and organization-wide adoption. Applied AI Engineers serve as trusted technical partners to customer executives, engineering teams, product leaders, security organizations, and transformation teams. They combine deep technical judgment with strong customer instincts, translating frontier AI capabilities into secure, reliable systems and durable business outcomes. About the Role We are seeking a Manager to build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Applied AI Engineers supporting our enterprise customers. You will be accountable for the technical success of a broad and strategically important customer portfolio. You will help your team identify high-value opportunities, design and deploy production-grade AI systems, navigate complex technical and organizational constraints, and expand successful implementations across workflows, teams, and business units. This role requires technical depth, people leadership, customer judgment, and operational rigor. You should be comfortable coaching engineers through architecture and evaluation decisions, engaging directly in high-stakes customer situations, and collaborating with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and Legal. You will also help define how we serve enterprise customers at scale by developing effective coverage models, reusable implementation patterns, technical enablement, escalation mechanisms, and systems for turning field insights into high-quality product feedback. In This Role, You Will Build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of Applied AI Engineers supporting large and complex enterprise customers. Own the quality and impact of the team’s work across solution design, implementation, production readiness, adop

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $272K/yr

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About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Opportunity: Datadog’s Senior Staff Engineers are technical leaders operating at the forefront of large-scale systems design, building the infrastructure that will support our next five years of growth and beyond. They do this in three major ways: As individual contributors, they bring world-class technical depth to build industry-leading systems in areas such as observability data platforms, distributed query engines, and real-time event streaming at global scale. As technical leaders, they apply broad architectural perspective and deep systems thinking to align design decisions across teams and domains. They work across complex, multi-team problem spaces to define long-term technical direction, drive large-scale initiatives forward, and ensure consistent execution. As engineering stewards, they play a key role in evolving our systems and engineering culture. They actively participate in Datadog’s senior technical community, bringing external insights and internal experience to elevate engineering standards and mentor the next generation of technical leaders. Examples of projects a Senior Staff Engineer may lead include designing and launching a new distributed data storage engine capable of handling hundreds of millions of records per second, building the real-time infrastructure behind a new observability product, or re-architecting a core service to support exponential growth in throughput and complexity. What You’ll Do: Be the technical owner of multiple critical systems or architecture areas, often spanning several t

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps. You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams. This role is based in New York. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role you will Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through You might thrive in this role if you Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or c

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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This Engineering Manager will lead the Data Visualizations Explorations team within the Graphing organization, setting product direction, and coaching and developing team members. They will staff and drive projects that build end to end experiences for Datadog’s core users: observability engineers. This includes extending the capabilities of core widgets like Hostmap and Geomap Visualizations and finding innovative ways to leverage existing Datadog data sources. This role also involves close partnerships with other product teams to deeply understand customer needs and deliver compelling data experiences. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Data Visualization Explorations team Coach and develop engineers at various levels Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more. Proactively anticipate cross-team dependencies and blockers to goals. Identify opportunities to appropriately reuse or customize features across dashboards, notebooks, and product pages. Deeply understand the needs of our customers and other Datadog products we work with. Participate in customer conversations, review product briefs, read feature requests, and coach team members to adopt these practices as well. Define and maintain high standards for operations practices, including bug triage and remediation, incident response, and gathering and analyzing performance telemetry for our widgets. Who You Are: At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, including familiarity with front

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $244K/yr

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About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Opportunity: Datadog’s Staff Engineers are our technical leaders operating at the forefront of technology, building solutions that take us through at least our next five years of growth. They do this in three major ways: As individual contributors, they bring world class technical abilities to deliver industry leading systems in areas such as data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet scale streaming. As technical leaders they bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackling design and architectural problems spanning the organization, charting the right course, then leading delivery. In both roles they participate in the staff engineering community and help us learn from what the industry is doing and what we've built before, and so improve company wide standards around software and systems engineering. Some examples of projects a staff engineer may own include designing and building a new data storage engine handling hundreds of millions of records per second, being the lead engineer building a new product like synthetics or profiling, or rebuilding a critical service to handle the next two orders of magnitude of scale. What You'll Do: Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end, doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/P

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale, enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. APM at Datadog is on its way to redefine how users interact with their telemetry. We are integrating intelligence directly into troubleshooting workflows to help engineers find root causes faster, navigate complex distributed systems seamlessly, and optimize application performance with minimal cognitive load. APM provides deep visibility from end-user interactions to backend services and we are now expanding this foundation with new AI-driven insights, guidance, and automation. As a Product Manager II for APM, you will work with world-class engineers, designers, and partner product teams to shape the future of Distributed Tracing, Performance Analysis, and Intelligent Troubleshooting. You will help build advanced capabilities that scale to thousands of customers and make sophisticated observability workflows accessible to every engineer, from experts to beginners. 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 will do: Develop a deep understanding of APM customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and competitors Lead conversations with design partners and strategic customers to uncover real-world performance issues, validate product assumptions, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability Define and deliver the next generation of APM features with engineering and design, especially agentic on

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