Developer Advocate

Treehouse; New York (NY); On-site; USD 136,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a talented individual to join their engineering team, focusing on cloud observability and monitoring. This role offers the unique opportunity to leverage your engineering expertise and creative storytelling skills to impact the cloud native community. You will create content that enhances the company's reputation in DevOps and engage with product engineering teams to deliver compelling demos. If you are passionate about technology and enjoy self-driven exploration, this position is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to professional development and innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development or SRE with container technologies.
• 3+ years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling content.

Responsibilities

• Create content to build reputation in DevOps, Monitoring, Observability, and Security.
• Partner with engineering teams to create demos and coach on effective communication.

Skills

Kubernetes

Container Technologies

Storytelling

Public Speaking

Node.js

Python

Go

Bash

Job description

We are a team of engineers that translate our real world experience to help our user communities solve problems. With a focus on containers/Kubernetes, you will have the opportunity to work with key leaders across the industry, and broaden your impact to the cloud native community at large. This is a unique opportunity to leverage both your engineering and creative storytelling skills to shape the landscape in cloud observability and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Create content in one or more modes to build Datadog's 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
• Partner with product engineering teams to build compelling demos, and coach internal engineering teams on effective communication and presentation
• Interface with open source communities to drive key messaging in the market and develop new integrations for Datadog
• Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions), documentation, or code

Qualifications

• Approximately 5+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner, with strong experience in container technologies e.g. deploying Kubernetes clusters at scale in one or more cloud environments
• 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 are comfortable with at least 2 programming languages (eg Node.js, 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

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $136,000—$174,000 USD

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.