Senior Developer Advocate - Software Delivery

Datadog

Summary

Our Senior Developer Advocates at Datadog are technical leaders who drive collaboration and empower the community to solve real-world problems by engaging technical audiences with empathy and credibility, focusing on modern software delivery practices.

What you'll do

Act as a subject matter expert for topics related to software delivery for the Datadog advocacy and engineering teams
Speak at conferences and meetups to build Datadog’s reputation around developer experience and software delivery
Interface with open source communities to understand problems and trends in the market and influence new integrations for Datadog
Partner with product engineering teams to build compelling demos, and coach internal engineering teams on effective communication and presentation
Create developer facing documentation and training materials for Datadog's SDKs and APIs to foster the growth of our developer community
Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions), documentation, or code
Identify and pursue opportunities for events, programs, and other community-focused work that establishes trust with developers

Requirements

10+ years experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner, including building and maintaining production systems
You have significant experience in software delivery, such as implementing best practices for testing, building and monitoring CI/CD pipelines in one or more tools (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, CircleCI, Buildkite, Azure DevOps), and ensuring code quality
3+ years of experience in developer relations, or similar experience reaching developers through channels including written content, conference talks, workshops, live streaming or recording videos, contributing to open source, and participating in community events
Able to communicate with technical users of all skill levels, from junior developers to CTOs, and comfortable presenting to audiences of any size
Proficient in one or more modern programming languages and associated testing frameworks such as Python, Node.js, Java, Go, .Net, Ruby, and Rust