Our Senior Developer Advocates are technical leaders and mentors that anchor our team. They own projects from beginning to end, facilitating collaboration and enabling Datadog’s community to solve real-world problems. With a focus on technical storytelling, you will work closely with Datadog engineers internally and the engineers of Datadog’s customers, coaching and enabling them to deliver compelling talks and stories. This is a unique opportunity to leverage both your engineering expertise and creative storytelling skills to shape the ever-evolving technological landscape.

What You’ll Do:

• Drive approach and execution of our first party technical event content programs, such as DASH and Datadog Summits, to tell authentic, compelling educational and inspirational stories for technical audiences
• Partner with and coach internal product and customer engineering teams on effective public communication and presentations for the work they do
• Partner with event organizers to ensure success when involving Datadog and our customers, and the curation of the content most compelling its to attendees
• Create content in one or more mediums to build Datadog’s reputation as a leader in DevOps, Observability and Security e.g. building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports and more
• Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions)
  
  

Who You Are:

• Approximately 10+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner
• Approximately 3+ years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling content e.g. written content, conference talks, 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 have coached and enabled others to speak publicly and deliver compelling talks about their areas of subject matter expertise in a way that resonates with audiences 
• Experience either working on technical conferences or events, either as a collaborator with organizers or as an organizer yourself
• You are comfortable with at least 2 programming languages (eg Node.js, Python, Go, bash) and are familiar with modern infrastructure such as IaaS cloud services and containers
• You enjoy self driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages

Nice to Have:

• You have experience working with regional teams to localize technical content and stories for your audiences
• You are multilingual