Senior Developer Advocate - Modern App Development

We are a team of engineers that translate our real-world experience to help our user communities solve problems. With a focus on AI-accelerated workflows and next-generation developer ecosystems, you will have the opportunity to meet fast-moving teams where they are, helping them lay strong engineering foundations and broadening your impact to the developer community at large.

• 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 how to balance rapid prototyping with established engineering practices around performance, code health, and system reliability.
• Build in public by creating authentic, peer-to-peer technical content.
• Drive a constructive, bidirectional feedback loop between fast-moving developer communities and internal teams.
• 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).

• Approximately 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally having shipped applications from scratch or worked within an early-stage startup environment.
• AI-fluent developer who natively leverages AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools.
• 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.
• Bonus: Active community presence or leadership in developer spaces.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is $172,000—$215,000 USD.

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
• Inclusive company culture, Community Guilds, Inclusion Talks
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits, including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan

Apply via the provided link.