Software Engineer – Feature Stores (AI Platform)

At Datadog, we’re building a unified AI Platform that powers ML and LLM applications across our product suite. The Feature Stores team is central to this mission—developing infrastructure that enables the creation, storage and serving of embeddings and features at scale for both offline training and online inference. 

Our feature store handles complex data pipelines, embedding storage, and cross-team feature discoverability across multiple cloud regions. It integrates deeply with our training, experimentation, and serving systems, enabling traceability, high availability, and low-latency access to production-ready features.

We’re looking for a software Engineer to expand and optimize our feature infrastructure. You will work at the intersection of ML data pipelines, distributed systems, and platform engineering—building tools and systems that scale with Datadog’s AI growth.

 

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

 

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain distributed data pipelines that power feature engineering for training and inference.
• Ensure reliability and scalability of data stores for both classic features and embeddings 
• Contribute to the design of feature cataloging, lineage, and access control systems across teams and regions.
• Integrate embedding stores and real-time serving backends to support low-latency inference use cases.
• Build internal tooling to improve feature discoverability, observability, and governance.
• Collaborate with ML engineers, backend developers, and infra teams to ensure end-to-end feature platform cohesion.

 

Who You Are:

• You have 3+ years of experience as a software, data or ML engineer, working on distributed systems or ML data pipelines.
• You’ve built and maintained data systems using technologies like Kafka, Spark,
• You have experience with postgres and other databases technologies
• You’re fluent in Python, Go, Scala, or Java and have experience working in cloud-native environments.
• You have a strong understanding of data modeling and storage formats optimized for machine learning.
• Bonus: experience with feature stores, or embedding databases.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

 

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

About Datadog: 

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyo