Drimva

Datadog

Manager II, Developer Advocacy

$212K–$265K

California, USA, Remote +5 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026

Location
California, USA, Remote
New York, USA, Remote
Washington, USA, Remote
California, United States
New York, United States
Washington, United States

About the job

Leads Datadog’s Community Advocacy team and programs, enabling customer engineers to contribute technical content, lead communities, and share their stories through talks and other channels.

What you'll do

  • Lead, coach, and develop Developer Advocates while setting team priorities and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture.
  • Set strategy, goals, and roadmaps for Ambassador, Champion, and User Group programs; build systems for customer contributions and measure program outcomes.
  • Coach customer engineers on technical stories and conference talks, and partner cross-functionally to scale participation and share community insights internally.

What they ask for

  • Experience defining and delivering developer advocacy, developer relations, technical community, or related functions.
  • Experience building or contributing to programs that enable external practitioners to participate, create content, or lead communities at scale.
  • Experience coaching technical practitioners to communicate their stories, including conference talks or technical content.
  • Technical background as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner—or equivalent technical depth.

Pay

USD 212,000–265,000 base salary

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)