Senior Developer Advocate - Modern App Development

Datadog; Washington; On-site; USD 194,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Continuous professional development

Inclusive company culture

Access to global mental health benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an experienced engineer with a passion for developer education and community engagement. You will work on AI-accelerated workflows, helping developers balance innovation with solid practices.

Ideal candidates will possess a strong engineering background, experience with AI tools, and a knack for storytelling and mentorship. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, including stock equity and comprehensive health plans.

Qualifications

• Approximately 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools.
• Comfortable coding in multiple programming languages.
• 3+ years in technical storytelling with a portfolio of work.

Responsibilities

• Help developers adapt to AI-accelerated workflows.
• Create technical content and engage with developer communities.
• Translate developer experiences into actionable product insights.
• Design open-source templates for observability integration.

Skills

Software engineering experience

AI coding assistants

Multi-stack development

Technical storytelling

Community engagement

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 AI‑accelerated workflows and next‑generation developer ecosystems, you will have the opportunity to meet fast‑moving teams where they are, helping them lay strong engineering foundations and broaden your impact to the developer community at large. This is a unique opportunity to use both your engineering depth and authentic storytelling skills to shape how the next wave of builders approach software health, scalability, and observability.

What You’ll Do

• Help developers hone their craft in an AI‑accelerated world by exploring how AI coding assistants and rapid‑prototyping tools change software workflows, and guiding teams on how to balance rapid prototyping with established engineering practices around performance, code health, and system reliability.
• Build in public by creating authentic, peer‑to‑peer technical content, sharing your engineering insights directly where modern developers collaborate in person and online.
• Drive a constructive, bidirectional feedback loop between fast‑moving developer communities and our internal teams, translating real‑world developer experiences into actionable product insights to shape our roadmap while advocating for user needs from the inside.
• Design and ship high‑quality open‑source boilerplate templates, quickstarts, and tools that make integrating observability seamless across AI native workflows, next‑gen platforms (Vercel, Supabase, etc.), and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Who You Are

• A builder with approximately 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally having shipped applications from scratch or worked within an early‑stage startup environment where you’ve worn multiple hats.
• An AI‑fluent developer who natively leverages AI coding assistants and rapid‑prototyping tools as a core part of your regular, day‑to‑day development workflow.
• Multi‑stack familiar, comfortable writing and debugging code across multiple programming languages (such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Python) and experienced with deployment paradigms spanning next‑gen platforms and traditional cloud ecosystems.
• An authentic communicator with approximately 3+ years of experience in technical storytelling and community engagement, backed by a publicly available portfolio of peer‑to‑peer artifacts like GitHub repositories, technical blogs, video walkthroughs, or public speaking presentations.
• A forward thinker who loves self‑driven exploration of emerging technologies, and is deeply passionate about developer education, mentorship, and helping other engineers hone their craft.

Bonus points

• Active community presence or leadership: You are an active participant, contributor, or moderator in developer spaces (such as meetups, Discord, Reddit, or open‑source ecosystems focused on next‑gen tech).

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in‑house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $194,000—$237,000 USD.

About Datadog

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high‑growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.

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