Technical Documentation Manager — Remote Team Lead

Datadog; Colorado; On-site; USD 131,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock equity

Career development

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Documentation Manager to lead the Datadog Docs team in Colorado and beyond, overseeing 3–5 technical writers, shaping content plans, and driving high-quality technical documentation for APIs, SDKs, and developer tools.

You will partner with Product and Engineering, interview SMEs, contribute to docs-as-code workflows, and help scale documentation as our platform grows. This role is remote in North America.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years experience researching and developing documentation for technical topics (databases, APIs, cloud infrastructure, performance and security monitoring).
• 2–5 years experience managing a small team of technical writers, coaching performance and guiding career growth.
• Publicly available technical writing samples.
• Comfort reading at least two programming languages (e.g. Ruby, Python, Go, bash).
• Documentation as code experience and familiarity with modern infrastructure (IaaS, containers) and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Manage 3–5 technical writer direct reports and oversee day-to-day, content plans, growth and engagement.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to create and maintain public documentation for users, developers, and SREs.
• Research technical details by experimenting with the product, interviewing SMEs, and reviewing source code.
• Collaborate with the Documentation team and contributor community to improve standards and processes.

Skills

Technical writing

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Docs as code

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

Containers

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Documentation Manager to lead the Datadog Docs team in Colorado and beyond, overseeing 3–5 technical writers, shaping content plans, and driving high-quality technical documentation for APIs, SDKs, and developer tools.

You will partner with Product and Engineering, interview SMEs, contribute to docs-as-code workflows, and help scale documentation as our platform grows. This role is remote in North America.