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Distinguished Architect, AI

Datadog· Technical Solutions / Product Solutions Architecture
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Hybrid (New York, NY / San Francisco, CA)$330k - $440kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Datadog is seeking a customer-focused, deeply technical Distinguished Architect to join the Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) team to support AI labs and AI-native companies, bridging bleeding-edge infrastructure needs with Datadog’s roadmap and ensuring observability for AI training and deployment at scale.

Responsibilities

  • 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 back to Datadog Product Management. Co-create custom observability integrations and solutions with Product SAs.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate with PSA, Sales, Sales Engineering and Marketing to provide high-quality technical resources to practitioners and economic buyers.
  • Hiring: Assist leadership in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO teams.

Qualifications

  • Industry Experience: 10+ years of experience with at-scale distributed systems architecture, high-performance computing, or large-scale infrastructure.
  • Deep familiarity with the AI/LLM ecosystem, accelerator hardware (GPUs/TPUs), and modern orchestration frameworks.

Skills

Required:AI/LLM architecturePublic speaking and presentations

Benefits

  • Best-in-breed onboarding
  • Generous global benefits
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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