# Distinguished Architect, AI at Datadog

- Company: Datadog (datadoghq.com)
- Location: New York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA
- Places: New York, San Francisco, United States
- Posted: 2026-05-29
- Apply: https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/7966795/?gh_jid=7966795
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/distinguished-architect-ai-datadog-kn7bfs3424afrrf4d86gsmsxrs8hc47v

## The posting

Distinguished Architect, AI
Datadog · New York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA

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. You will bridge the gap between their bleeding-edge infrastructure aspirations and Datadog’s technology roadmap, ensuring our platform natively solves the unique observability challenges of training and deploying foundational models at scale.

_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:**

- **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.

**Who You Are:**

- **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).
- **Presenter**: Excellent customer-facing presentation skills for large audiences, comfortable discussing complex technical details as well as with briefing executives or non-technical personas.
- **Communicator**: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to link product functionality to business objectives, value realization and ROI.
- **Travel**: Able to travel