Developer Advocate Community

We are a team of engineers that translate our real world experience to help our user communities solve problems. With a focus on engaging with and enabling our community of builders you will have the opportunity to work with key leaders across the industry and broaden your impact to the developer community at large. This is a unique opportunity to leverage both your engineering and community relations skills to support and scale Datadogs communities and community programs..

What Youll Do:

• Create content in one or more modes to build Datadogs reputation as a leader in DevOps Monitoring Observability and Security e.g. building demos public speaking blogging documentation webinars open source research reports and more
• Engage with our community members to encourage and participate in technical discussions on channels such as Slack forums and Stack Overflow
• Work directly with Datadog Ambassadors to help share their stories identify events for them to speak at and facilitate collaboration with Datadog teams to create publish and amplify their work
• Speak at and otherwise support community-focused events such as Datadog User Groups
• Design and participate in initiatives designed to entertain and reward community members both online and at first-party events
• Partner with product engineering teams to facilitate beta access solicit and deliver product feedback from the community and select and present topics for community-driven conversations and blog posts
• Interface with open source communities to drive key messaging in the market and develop new integrations for Datadog
  
  

Who You Are:

• Approximately 5 years of experience as a software developer SRE or other practitioner with strong experience in community relations or management
• Approximately 3 years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling content e.g. written content conference talks leading workshops live streaming or recording videos contributing to open source and participating in community events
• You have experience participating in communities built on platforms such as Slack Discord and GitHub
• You have publicly available writing samples blog posts demos or recordings of presentations on technical topics
• You are comfortable with at least 2 programming languages (eg Python Go bash) and are familiar with modern infrastructure such as IaaS cloud services and containers
• You enjoy self driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages

Bonus points:

• Experience working with community initiatives such as champions programs user group programs and hackathons
• You are already an active member of any communities in your region

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre 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
• Assigned TPM mentor and engineering buddy program for learning and relationship building
• An inclusive company culture active Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) in-person team summits local office programming
• Competitive global benefits; free mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6

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