Datadog
Developer Engagement Lead
$139K–$164K
New York, New York, USA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
New York, NY, United States
About the job
Build and operate Datadog’s developer engagement program across online communities, connecting developer conversations and feedback to the company’s technical and product teams.
What you'll do
- Create listening, monitoring, triage, response, and escalation systems for developer conversations across social and technical platforms.
- Run Datadog’s developer social channels, expand participation into new communities, and engage directly or coordinate responses from internal experts.
- Feed recurring developer questions and product feedback to internal teams, and measure and experiment with engagement programs.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated experience building an audience, community, engagement program, developer program, or similar function, with outcomes you changed.
- Strong judgment about when and how a company should participate in developer conversations.
- Comfort working with tooling, automation, monitoring platforms, APIs, and AI, and collaborating closely with engineers and technical products.
- Ability to build scalable engagement processes, including monitoring rules, triage, response playbooks, escalation, and measurement.
Nice to have
- Experience working with a technical or enthusiast audience.
- Experience with social listening or community-monitoring systems, developer platforms, Discord operations, or automation/AI for engagement.
Pay
$139,000–$164,000 USD yearly salary (base salary)
Tools
Reddit, Hacker News, Discord, GitHub, X, LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, YouTube
AI focus
May use AI to scale monitoring and engagement; the posting also describes Datadog’s broader AI-related product context, not as a specific job duty.
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