The opportunity
Datadog is expanding the Technical Solutions (TS) organization by seeking a customer-focused, deeply technical Distinguished Architect to join our Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) team. In this role, you will act as a technical multiplier for the world's leading AI labs and AI-native companies.
What you'll do
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 directly: back to Datadog Product Management. Co-create custom observability integrations and solutions alongside Product SAs to keep Datadog at the absolute forefront of the AI stack.
Collaboration: 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.
Hiring : Assist leadership in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the: Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO teams.
What they're looking for
- 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.
- Strategic Thinker: Able to think long term and creatively about a wide variety of technical and business challenges
- Stakeholder Management: Proven experience interacting with and influencing elite individual contributors, research scientists, and technical founders in flat, rapid-growth environments.
- Technologist: A true close-to-the-metal technologist who maintains deep hands-on credibility and can white-board architectural solutions seamlessly with senior engineers. Strong understanding of best practices and real world challenges AI/LLM Ops and LLM Observability (LLMO).
