Remote Senior Data Observability Advocate

Software Careers; Washington (IL); On-site; USD 194,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Continuous professional development

Global mental health benefits

Competitive global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate specializing in Data Observability. This role involves acting as a subject matter expert, creating impactful content, and coaching engineering teams on effective communication.

With a focus on building and enhancing data systems, the ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software development or data engineering and must be comfortable engaging with the data community.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in building and operating production data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with analytics platforms and SQL-based analysis.
• Deep understanding of modern data engineering practices and data systems.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert in data observability.
• Create content to build reputation as a leader in data engineering.
• Partner with internal teams to improve public communication.

Skills

Data engineering & processing systems

Data platforms & analytics systems

Streaming & event-driven data

Data quality, lineage, and metadata concepts

Programming & querying

Education

10+ years of experience in software development or data engineering

3+ years of experience in advocacy or developer relations

Tools

Apache Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Kafka

Python

SQL

Job description

Datadog is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate specializing in Data Observability. This role involves acting as a subject matter expert, creating impactful content, and coaching engineering teams on effective communication.

With a focus on building and enhancing data systems, the ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software development or data engineering and must be comfortable engaging with the data community.