engineering
Posted 6 days agoSenior Developer Advocate - Modern App Development
at Datadoghq
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Build in public by creating authentic, peer-to-peer technical content, sharing your engineering insights directly where modern developers collaborate in person and online.
- Drive a constructive, bidirectional feedback loop between fast-moving developer communities and our internal teams, translating real-world developer experiences into actionable product insights to shape our roadmap while advocating for user needs from the inside.
- Design and ship high-quality open-source boilerplate templates, quickstarts, and tools that make integrating observability seamless across AI native workflows, next-gen platforms (Vercel, Supabase, etc.), and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure). Who You Are:
Requirements
- experience to help our user communities solve problems.
- With a focus on AI-accelerated workflows and next-generation developer ecosystems, you will have the opportunity to meet fast-moving teams where they are, helping them lay strong engineering foundations and broadening
- Help developers hone their craft in an AI-accelerated world by exploring how AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools change software workflows, and guiding teams on how to balance rapid prototyping with established engineering practices around performance, code health, and system reliability.
- An AI-fluent developer who natively leverages AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools as a core part of your regular, day-to-day development workflow.
- Multi-stack familiar, comfortable writing and debugging code across multiple programming languages (such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Python) and experienced with deployment paradigms spanning next-gen platforms and traditional cloud ecosystems.
- experience in technical storytelling and community engagement, backed by a publicly available portfolio of peer-to-peer artifacts like GitHub repositories, technical blogs, video walkthroughs, or public speaking presentations.
- Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.
- It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
- Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
- Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Experience
- A builder with approximately 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally having shipped applications from scratch or worked within an early-stage startup environment where you've worn multiple hats.
- An authentic communicator with approximately 3+ years of
Benefits
- A forward thinker who loves self-driven exploration of emerging technologies, and is deeply passionate about developer education, mentorship, and helping other engineers hone their craft. Bonus points:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
- Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
- benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
- The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $172,000 — $215,000 USD
Additional details
- We are a team of engineers that translate our real-world
- This is a unique opportunity to use both your engineering depth and authentic storytelling skills to shape how the next wave of builders approach software health, scalability, and observability. What You’ll Do:
- Active community presence or leadership: You are an active participant, contributor, or moderator in developer spaces (such as meetups, Discord, Reddit, or open-source ecosystems focused on next-gen tech).
- 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.
- 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
- Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. #LI-Remote