Developer Advocate: Observability, SRE & DevOps Storyteller

Datadog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous and competitive benefits

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous career development

Product training

Best in breed onboarding

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive workplace culture

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a seasoned Platform/SRE/DevOps engineer who blends engineering chops with storytelling to shape cloud observability and incident response content. You will translate real-world ops experience into demos, blogs, webinars, and open source work, collaborating with advocacy and engineering teams across Datadog.

You bring 5+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles, hands-on incident response, scripting in Node.js, Python, Go or bash, and public writing samples.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles with on-call experience.
• Strong knowledge of service-management practices and incident response.
• Excellent written and spoken communication; public samples required.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME for service management for Datadog's advocacy and engineering teams.
• Create content across demos, blogs, webinars, docs, and open source to showcase Datadog leadership.
• Partner with product engineers to build demos and coach teams on communication.
• Interface with open source communities to drive messaging and integrations.
• Contribute to the product via feedback, documentation, or code.

Skills

Platform Engineer

SRE

DevOps Engineer

Software Developer

On-call / Incident responder

Storytelling / content creation

Public speaking

Node.js

Python

Go

bash

APIs

Documentation

Open source contributions

Tools

Datadog

PagerDuty

Opsgenie

incident.io

Rootly

Jira Cloud Platform

Cortex

Job description

Datadog is seeking a seasoned Platform/SRE/DevOps engineer who blends engineering chops with storytelling to shape cloud observability and incident response content. You will translate real-world ops experience into demos, blogs, webinars, and open source work, collaborating with advocacy and engineering teams across Datadog.

You bring 5+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles, hands-on incident response, scripting in Node.js, Python, Go or bash, and public writing samples.