Staff AI Engineer

Datadog's MCP team is scaling the capabilities of our MCP Services — an interface that enables external agents like Claude and Cursor, as well as internal Datadog AI Agents, to interact with Datadog data. As a Staff Engineer, you'll play a critical role in evolving this agent-friendly tool surface, enabling agentic workflows across metrics, logs, and incidents etc. You'll drive forward advanced evaluation frameworks for agentic systems and contribute to the next generation of agent-tool interaction models. This is a fast-evolving space with deep ambiguity and high impact — ideal for someone eager to help shape Datadog's applied AI future.

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 efforts to improve Datadog's public-facing MC...