[Hiring] Senior Developer Advocate - Data Observability @Datadog

Role Description

Our Senior Developer Advocates are technical leaders and mentors that anchor our team. They own projects from beginning to end, facilitating collaboration and enabling Datadog's community to solve real-world problems. With a focus on Data Observability, this role will enable our community of engineers around Datadog to be part of a movement of building better software. This is a unique opportunity to use both your engineering expertise and advocacy skills to shape the ever-evolving technological landscape.

What You’ll Do:

• Act as a subject matter expert for data observability on behalf of the Datadog advocacy and engineering teams.
• Create content in one or more mediums to build Datadog's reputation as a leader in data engineering and observability (e.g., building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports, and more).
• Partner with and coach internal product and customer engineering teams on effective public communication and presentations for the work they do.
• Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions).
• Identify and pursue opportunities for events, programs, and other community-focused work that establishes trust with practitioners.

Qualifications

• You are a trusted technical expert who enjoys helping data practitioners understand, operate, and improve complex data systems in production.
• You bring deep, hands-on experience in one or more areas of modern data engineering.
• You are comfortable connecting various areas into a coherent operational story.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a software developer, data engineer, SRE, or other practitioner building and maintaining production systems.
• 3+ years of experience in advocacy, developer relations, or equivalent experience reaching technical audiences through written content, conference talks, workshops, webinars, videos, or open-source contributions.
• Publicly available writing samples, demos, repositories, or recordings of technical presentations.
• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure and container-based systems.
• A strong interest in self-directed learning and exploring new technologies, tools, and problem spaces.

Benefits

• 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.