Datadog

Staff AI Engineer – MCP Services

Datadog

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Portugal

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

React

About the role

  • Lead efforts to improve Datadog’s public-facing MCP server, enabling intelligent agents to discover and interact with our services
  • Design and implement agentic tool surfaces tailored for evaluation and production use across a wide variety of AI agents
  • Build and maintain advanced evaluation pipelines for measuring agent performance on Datadog workflows (e.g., investigations, incident triage, metric queries)
  • Investigate and resolve failure cases by analyzing tool output, improving query parsing, and enhancing agent feedback mechanisms
  • Collaborate across Applied AI and internal teams to align on shared standards for tool integration and data access

Requirements

  • Experienced Staff-level engineer with a strong background in applied AI, agentic programming, and/or the following: LLM-powered automation pipelines, LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI), Agent orchestration and tool-use systems
  • Comfortable working in high ambiguity and fast-changing environments; able to define and prioritize direction autonomously
  • Skilled in building evaluation frameworks for LLM agents or AI systems, including metrics design and data instrumentation
  • Bonus: Experience working with the MCP standard or contributing to agent-compatible tooling surfaces, familiarity with building and evaluating ReAct agentic loops
  • Strong systems thinking, able to reason across multiple agents, tools, and user scenarios
  • Passionate about pushing boundaries in agent-augmented software and eager to shape evolving interfaces
Benefits
  • 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
applied AIagentic programmingLLM-powered automation pipelinesLLM orchestration frameworksLangChainLangGraphCrewAIevaluation frameworksmetrics designdata instrumentation
Soft Skills
systems thinkingautonomous direction settingprioritizationcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingcommunicationanalytical thinkingcreativitypassion for innovation