Developer Advocate - Service Management

We are a team of engineers that translate our real-world experience to help our user communities solve problems. With a focus on service management, helping teams respond to incidents, run on-call, and automate their operations, you will work with practitioners and leaders across the industry and broaden your impact to the SRE, Engineer, DevOps, and Operations community at large. This is a unique opportunity to use both your engineering and creative storytelling skills to shape the landscape in cloud observability, incident response and service management.

What You'll Do

Act as a subject matter expert for service management (incident response, on-call, IDP, Work Management, Workflow Automation, Agent Builder, and operational automation) for Datadog's advocacy and engineering teams

Create content in one or more mediums to build Datadog's reputation as a leader in DevOps, Monitoring, Observability and Security e.g. building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports and more

Partner with product engineering teams to build compelling demos, and coach internal engineering teams on effective communication and presentation

Interface with open source communities to drive key messaging in the market and develop new integrations for Datadog

Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions), documentation, or code

Who You Are

Approximately 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or Software Developer with hands-on experience as an on-call/incident responder and running production systems in complex IT environments

You have a strong understanding of core service-management practices (incident response, on-call, post incident reviews, and SLOs), using tools like Datadog, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, incident.io, Rootly, Jira Cloud Platform, Cortex, or similar and know how to navigate operational challenges of different sized organizations

You’re passionate about helping teams fix organizational challenges, not just technical ones and where they intersect, and have shared your knowledge broadly.

Approximately 2+ years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling content e.g. written content, speaking at conferences like SREcon, DevOpsDays or SREday, leading workshops, live streaming or recording videos, contributing to open source and participating in community events.

You have publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of presentations on technical topics

You are comfortable with at least one scripting and programming languages (eg Node.js, Python, Go, bash) and are familiar with working with APIs and modern infrastructure such as IaaS cloud services and containers

You enjoy self driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages

Bonus points

You have hands-on ITSM platform experience (ServiceNow, Jira Service Management)

You are already an active member of SRE, DevOps, or incident-response communities

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.

Generous and competitive benefits package

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous career development opportunities

Product training to develop understanding of our product and space