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Senior Developer Advocate - Modern App Development

Datadog· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote (CA, NV, TX, WA))$172k - $215kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

We are a team of engineers that translate our real-world experience to help our user communities solve problems, focusing on AI-accelerated workflows and developer ecosystems. The role blends engineering depth with storytelling to influence software health, scalability, and observability for AI-native workflows and next-gen platforms.

Responsibilities

  • 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 balancing 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 engineering insights directly where modern developers collaborate in person and online.
  • Drive a constructive, bidirectional feedback loop between fast-moving developer communities and internal teams, translating real-world developer experiences into actionable product insights to shape 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).

Qualifications

  • 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 regular 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Skills

Required:Software engineeringAI fluency in developmentProgramming languages

Benefits

  • 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, 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.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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