Description
Datadog is seeking a customer-focused, deeply technical Distinguished Architect to join our Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) team. You will act as a technical multiplier for the world's leading AI labs and AI-native companies, bridging the gap between their bleeding-edge infrastructure aspirations and Datadog's technology roadmap.
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate thought leadership in the AI/LLM space, influencing key decision makers and stakeholders by connecting technical capabilities to organizational and business impact.
- Strategically partner with highly technical Founders, Heads of Infrastructure, and Research Lead peers, guiding them on best practices and emerging industry trends in the AI/LLM space.
- 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.
- Identify emerging AI-native technology shifts and feed them directly back to Datadog Product Management.
- 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.
- Assist leadership in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO teams.
Requirements:
- 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.
- Proven experience interacting with and influencing elite individual contributors, research scientists, and technical founders in flat, rapid-growth environments.
- Excellent customer-facing presentation skills for large audiences, comfortable discussing complex technical details as well as with briefing executives or non-technical personas.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to link product functionality to business objectives, value realization and ROI.
- Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 50% of the time.
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