Staff AI Engineer - MCP Services

Datadog(18 hours ago)

HybridFull TimeSenior$144,226 - $192,540 (estimated)Applied AI

About this role

A Staff Engineer on Datadog’s MCP team will evolve the MCP Services interface that enables external and internal AI agents to interact with Datadog data. The role focuses on building agent-friendly tool surfaces and advanced evaluation frameworks for agentic systems across metrics, logs, and incidents. This position helps shape Datadog’s applied AI tooling and agent-tool interaction models while working in a hybrid workplace.

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Required Skills

Agentic Programming
Applied AI
LLM Orchestration
Evaluation Frameworks
Metrics Design
Data Instrumentation
Systems Thinking
Tool Integration
Incident Triage
Query Parsing

About Datadog

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Datadog is a SaaS monitoring and observability platform that helps teams see inside infrastructure, applications, logs, and user experience across cloud-scale environments. It ingests metrics, traces, and logs from hundreds of integrations and provides unified dashboards, alerts, APM, log management, synthetics, and security monitoring. Developers, operations, and security teams use Datadog to detect, troubleshoot, and optimize performance and reliability for modern distributed systems.