Senior Developer Advocate, Data Observability

Datadog

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$194,000–$237,000 / yr
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25 days ago

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Above market

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About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 130 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,000–$240,000 across 65 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Developer Advocate, Data Observability

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As a Senior Developer Advocate at Datadog, you will serve as a technical leader and mentor within the Data Observability team, owning projects from inception to completion while fostering collaboration among community members. Your daily tasks include creating educational content such as demos, blogs, webinars, and documentation to enhance Datadog’s reputation in data engineering and observability. You will also coach internal teams on effective public communication and contribute to product development through feedback. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in data engineering systems like Apache Spark or Databricks, analytics platforms such as Snowflake, streaming technologies including Kafka, and programming languages like Python or Scala. Additionally, you should have over 10 years of experience in software development or related fields, at least three years in developer advocacy roles, and a proven track record of reaching technical audiences through various mediums. Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure and a passion for continuous learning are essential.

Skills

Apache_Spark Databricks Snowflake BigQuery Kafka dbt OpenLineage Python SQL Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD GitHub AWS GCP

What you'll do

  • Act as a subject matter expert for data observability.
  • Create content to build Datadog's reputation in data engineering and observability.
  • Coach internal teams on effective public communication and presentations.
  • Contribute to product development through feedback and suggestions.
  • Identify and pursue opportunities for community-focused work.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in software development, data engineering, or SRE roles.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in data engineering and processing systems like Apache Spark.
  • Strong understanding of data platforms and analytics systems such as Snowflake and BigQuery.
  • Experience with streaming and event-driven data systems including Kafka.
  • Familiarity with data quality, lineage, metadata concepts, and related tooling.
  • Comfortable working in programming languages used in data systems (Python, Scala) and SQL.

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