Developer Engagement Lead

Datadog is hiring a Developer Engagement Lead to own how Datadog listens, responds, and participates across developer channels. This is a builder role within the Product org, not a traditional social media or community management role. You will build the operating model for developer engagement at scale, including monitoring and response systems, owned channels, and feedback loops into Product.

• Build developer listening and engagement systems to monitor conversations about Datadog, products, competitors, and developer problems across Reddit, Hacker News, Discord, GitHub, X, LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, YouTube, and other platforms.
• Turn monitoring into action by identifying conversations worth joining, determining when to respond, and routing questions to the right engineer, PM, DevRel, support, or product expert.
• Own developer channels, including @datadogdevs on X and Datadog Developers on LinkedIn, including publishing, engagement, replies, and experimentation.
• Expand Datadog's presence in new communities, potentially launching Discord, creating a stronger Reddit strategy, or building participation models for Hacker News or GitHub.
• Define response guidelines, escalation paths, ownership models, and expectations for developer conversations.
• Create feedback loops into Product, surfacing recurring questions, pain points, objections, competitive mentions, and product feedback.
• Enable technical voices to participate directly in conversations instead of relying exclusively on brand accounts.
• Turn shipped work into conversations by bringing releases, changelogs, technical content, demos, events, and engineering work into developer discussions.
• Define measurement beyond follower counts, tracking conversations joined, response coverage, sentiment, participation, traffic, product discovery, trials, and signups.
• Run experiments on platforms, formats, tooling, workflows, response models, and engagement programs.

• Experience building an audience, community, engagement program, or similar function with measurable outcomes.
• Strong judgment about when a company should join a conversation.
• Naturally curious about developer discussions and able to identify relevant threads.
• Systems thinker comfortable with tooling, automation, monitoring platforms, APIs, AI, and lightweight workflows.
• Ability to create structure: monitoring rules, triage processes, response playbooks, escalation paths, reporting, and measurement.
• Experience earning participation from internal experts.
• Strong opinions about developer culture and platforms, updated by evidence.
• Background in Growth, Developer Marketing, Audience Development, Product, Media, Social, Technical Communications, or similar.
• Bonus: experience with social listening systems, developer platforms like Reddit/Discord/Hacker News/GitHub/Stack Overflow/X, launching Discord, creating triage workflows, familiarity with developer tools/infrastructure/observability/security/AI/open source, using automation/AI for monitoring, existing developer audience, or short-form technical content and video.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, with variable compensation possible. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role is $139,000—$164,000 USD. Benefits include healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

Apply through the Datadog careers page for this role.