Datadog
Developer Advocate - Service Management
$136K–$170K
California, USA, Remote +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- California, USA, Remote
New York, USA, Remote
New York, United States - Experience
- Approximately 5+ years as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Software Developer; approximately 2+ years in storytelling and creating technical content.
About the job
Advocate for Datadog’s service-management products and practices by creating technical content, demos, and community engagement, while partnering with engineering teams to improve products and messaging.
What you'll do
- Serve as a service-management subject matter expert and create content such as demos, talks, blogs, documentation, webinars, and research.
- Partner with product engineering on demos and communication, and engage open-source communities to shape messaging and integrations.
- Contribute product feedback, documentation, or code.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience responding to on-call incidents and running production systems in complex IT environments.
- Strong understanding of incident response, on-call, post-incident reviews, and SLOs, using relevant tools or similar.
- Publicly available technical writing, demos, or presentation recordings.
- Comfort with at least one scripting or programming language, and familiarity with APIs, IaaS cloud services, and containers.
Nice to have
- Hands-on ITSM platform experience, such as ServiceNow or Jira Service Management.
- Active member of SRE, DevOps, or incident-response communities.
Pay
USD 136,000–170,000 yearly salary (base salary)
Tools
Datadog, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, incident.io, Rootly, Jira Cloud Platform, Cortex, Node.js
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