Senior Developer Advocate - Modern App Development

Responsibilities

• ▹Help developers hone their craft in an AI-accelerated world, guiding teams on balancing rapid prototyping with engineering practices around performance, code health, and reliability
• ▹Build in public by creating authentic, peer-to-peer technical content
• ▹Drive a bidirectional feedback loop between developer communities and internal teams, shaping the product roadmap
• ▹Design and ship open-source boilerplate templates, quickstarts, and tools for observability across AI-native workflows, next-gen platforms (Vercel, Supabase) and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Requirements

• ▹Approximately 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally shipping applications from scratch or in an early-stage startup environment
• ▹AI-fluent developer who natively leverages AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools daily
• ▹Multi-stack familiarity across languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Python, and deployment paradigms across next-gen and traditional cloud ecosystems
• ▹Approximately 3+ years of experience in technical storytelling and community engagement, with a public portfolio (GitHub repos, blogs, videos, talks)
• ▹Forward-thinking, self-driven explorer of emerging technologies, passionate about developer education and mentorship

Nice to have

• ▹Active community presence or leadership in developer spaces (meetups, Discord, Reddit, open-source ecosystems focused on next-gen tech)

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Estimated yearly salary: $172,000-$215,000 USD
• ▹New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• ▹Continuous professional development, product training, career pathing
• ▹Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
• ▹Inclusive company culture, Community Guilds
• ▹Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• ▹Competitive global benefits

About the company

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, unifying visibility across applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security; trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders.