DevOps & Observability Advocate

Datadog, Inc.; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits package

RSUs and ESPP

Career development opportunities

Product training

Mentor program

Inclusive workplace culture

Job summary

Datadog, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Platform/SRE/DevOps professional to act as a subject matter expert for service management and production operations.

You will craft technical content across demos, blogs, webinars, and documentation to bolster Datadog's leadership in observability and security. You will partner with engineering teams to build compelling demos, mentor peers on effective communication, and engage with open source communities to drive market messaging and new integrations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as Platform/SRE/DevOps/Software Developer with hands-on on-call/incident responder experience.
• Strong understanding of core service-management practices (incident response, on-call, post incident reviews, and SLOs) using tools like Datadog, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, incident.io, Rootly, Jira Cloud Platform, Cortex.
• 2+ years of storytelling and creating compelling content (written, speaking at conferences, workshops, videos, etc).
• Publicly available writing samples, blogs, demos, or presentations on technical topics.
• Comfort with at least one scripting/programming language (Node.js, Python, Go, bash) and API usage; familiarity with IaaS/cloud services and containers.
• Enjoy self-driven exploration and learning of new technologies and languages.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for service management for Datadog's advocacy and engineering teams.
• Create content in demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, and research reports to build Datadog's reputation.
• Partner with product engineering teams to build demos and coach engineers on communication and presentation.
• Interface with open source communities to drive messaging and develop new integrations for Datadog.
• Contribute to the product through feedback, documentation, or code.

Skills

Incident response

On-call

SRE

Public speaking

Technical writing

Content creation

APIs

Scripting

Tools

Datadog

PagerDuty

Opsgenie

incident.io

Rootly

Jira Cloud Platform

Cortex

Job description

Datadog, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Platform/SRE/DevOps professional to act as a subject matter expert for service management and production operations.

You will craft technical content across demos, blogs, webinars, and documentation to bolster Datadog's leadership in observability and security. You will partner with engineering teams to build compelling demos, mentor peers on effective communication, and engage with open source communities to drive market messaging and new integrations.