Our Staff Developer Advocates are technical leaders and mentors who 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 technical executive storytelling, you will work closely with Datadog’s product and engineering leaders and their counterparts at our customers, coaching them to tell compelling stories and creating experiences that build credibility with technical executive audiences. This is a unique opportunity to combine your engineering expertise and creative storytelling skills to shape how technical leaders understand and engage with the evolving technology landscape.
What You’ll Do:
- Be the key technical storyteller for our most senior technical executive audiences
- Drive approach and execution of our overall first party technical event content programs, such as DASH and Datadog Summits, to tell authentic, compelling educational and inspirational stories for executive technical audiences
- Define and drive executive-level advocacy programs for technical audiences, ensuring Datadog remains relevant to senior technical audiences (CTOs, VPs of Engineering, technical architects)
- Represent Datadog’s point-of-view in the field to technical leaders at events and conferences.
- Partner with and coach internal product and engineering leaders on effective public communication and presentations for the work they do
- Represent Datadog leadership’s point-of-view for our solutions, engineering culture and industry trends that our technical users should be thinking about
- Partner with event organizers to ensure success when involving Datadog and our customers, and the curation of the content most compelling its to attendees
- Create content in one or more mediums to build Datadog's reputation as a leader in DevOps, Observability and Security e.g. building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports and more
- Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions)
Who You Are:
- Approximately 5+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner
- Approximately 8+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership capacity (e.g., Principal Engineer, VP/Director+, Staff Developer Advocate) responsible for collaborating with peer leaders to set technical direction and influence product direction to serve user needs.
- 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 publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of presentations on technical topics
- You have coached and enabled others to speak publicly and deliver compelling talks about their areas of subject matter expertise in a way that resonates with audiences, especially technical executives
- Experience either working on technical conferences or events, either as a collaborator with organizers or as an organizer yourself
- You enjoy self driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages
Nice to Have:
- You have experience working with regional teams to localize technical content and stories for your audiences
- You are multilingual
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 (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
- Generous global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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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. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee 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.
About Datadog:
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.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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Skills Required
- Approximately 5+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other technical practitioner
- Approximately 8+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership capacity
- Approximately 3+ years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling technical content
- Publicly available technical writing samples, blog posts, demos, or presentation recordings
- Experience coaching and enabling others to speak publicly and deliver compelling technical talks
- Experience working on technical conferences or events, as a collaborator or organizer
- Self-driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages
- Experience localizing technical content and stories for regional audiences
- Multilingual ability
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Datadog Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision plans plus added mental-health resources and wellness support. Feedback suggests virtual-care options and fitness reimbursements further strengthen this area.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and broad family-forming benefits (e.g., fertility, adoption, surrogacy) are consistently highlighted. Feedback suggests extras like childcare help and pet-related benefits reinforce an inclusive family focus.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employees have access to equity via new-hire grants and a discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Feedback suggests these ownership programs materially enhance total rewards for many roles.
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What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
At Datadog, we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems, innovate pragmatically, and grow together. We promote from within, provide mentorship and opportunities for career development, and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.
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