Distinguished Engineer in New York

Datadog is expanding the Technical Solutions (TS) organization by seeking a customer-focused, deeply technical Distinguished Architect to join our Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) team. In this role, you will act as a technical multiplier for the world's leading AI labs and AI-native companies. You will bridge the gap between their bleeding-edge infrastructure aspirations and Datadog’s technology roadmap, ensuring our platform natively solves the unique observability challenges of training and deploying foundational models 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: Leadership : Demonstrate thought leadership in the AI/LLM space. Influence key decision makers and stakeholders by connecting technical capabilities to organizational and business impact. Advisory : Strategically partner with highly technical Founders, Heads of Infrastructure, and Research Lead peers. Guide them on best practices and emerging industry trends in the AI/LLM space. Lead high-level technical and architectural conversations around AI adoption. Presentations : Lead deep-dive architecture reviews and design engagements with customer teams and their leaders to share industry trends, best practices, and demonstrate how Datadog can support high-throughput hyper scale AI workloads. GTM : Identify emerging AI-native technology shifts and feed them directly back to Datadog Product Management. Co-create custom observability integrations and solutions alongside Product SAs to keep Datadog at the absolute forefront of the AI stack. Collaboration : Collaborate with Product Solutions Architecture (PSA), Sales, Sales Engineering and Marketing in providing high-quality technical resources to a broad audience of practitioners and economic buyers. Hiring : Assis

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 As a foundational FDE manager, you’ll lead FDE through high-stakes, ambiguous customer deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. You’ll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field. You’ll partner closely with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to ensure fieldwork informs roadmap priorities, drives new exploration, and supports safe deployment at scale. Your decisions will influence how OpenAI is trusted by the customers closest to our deployment work. Your success will be measured by how consistently your team ships, how clearly you deliver signal to Research and Product, and how durable your team and delivery model prove to be. This role is based in New York City We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. This role also will require travel up to 25%. In this role you will Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality Codify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for both OpenAI and our wider developer community Notice early indicators and raise them with urgency, whether in product behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices Use judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not Set a high bar for FDE performance and support each person’s growth through direct, actionable feedback Define how we staff and support field teams that can scale without added complexity You might thrive in this role if you Bring 8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or custo

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Being an SDR at Vanta is, first and foremost, about hitting targets and driving revenue. But beyond that, it’s about joining a community that is deeply committed to your success and career growth. We believe that the future of our sales organization lies with our SDRs, which is why we place a strong emphasis on enablement and career advancement. You’ll receive the training, support, and mentorship you need to excel, with a clear path to advance within our sales team. Vanta is growing quickly, we're profitable, and we're continually outpacing our growth targets while maintaining very strong NPS scores. Needless to say, it's an exciting time! We're scaling our Sales Development team with customer-focused SDRs who will take ownership of our outbound sales engine and help to build pipeline as we move up market, and distinguish Vanta as best-in-class to prospects in a burgeoning competitive landscape. If this sounds like you, and you're excited to join a growing team, we'd love to hear from you. What you’ll do as a Sales Development Representative at Vanta: Have a strong understanding of Vanta’s value proposition and product Master the process of identifying strategic accounts using tools like Salesforce, ZoomInfo, Outreach, Linkedin Sales Nav, and 6Sense, that will help us move up market Organize a multi-channel approach to prospecting and and maximize efforts by developing sequences in Outreach Coordinate meetings on account executive’s calendars and log activities Efficiently and gracefully counter objections, as well as have excellent interpersonal & technical skills How to be successful in this role: Have an enthusiasm for