Senior Developer Advocate, Modern App Development

Datadog

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Remote
Location
CANVTXWA
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$172,000–$215,000 / yr
Posted
144 days ago
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This role pays more than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $142,300–$213,243 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $194k versus about $178k for comparable roles.

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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 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Developer Advocate, Modern App Development

The Senior Developer Advocate - Modern App Development joins a team of engineers dedicated to helping user communities solve technical problems. You will help developers navigate AI-accelerated workflows by balancing rapid prototyping with engineering practices for performance, code health, and system reliability. Your daily responsibilities include creating peer-to-peer technical content, driving a bidirectional feedback loop between communities and internal teams, and shipping open-source boilerplate templates and quickstarts. You will work with technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python across platforms like Vercel, Supabase, AWS, GCP, and Azure. The role focuses on the technical challenge of integrating seamless observability into AI-native workflows and next-generation platforms, ensuring that modern builders can maintain software health and scalability while utilizing emerging AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools.

What you'll do

  • Guide developers on balancing rapid AI prototyping with engineering best practices for performance and reliability.
  • Create authentic, peer-to-peer technical content to share engineering insights with the developer community.
  • Translate real-world developer experiences into actionable product insights to shape the internal product roadmap.
  • Advocate for user needs to internal teams to ensure product development aligns with community requirements.
  • Design and ship high-quality open-source boilerplate templates and quickstart tools.
  • Develop tools to simplify observability integration across AI-native workflows and cloud providers.
  • Explore how AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools change modern software development workflows.

What we're looking for

  • You must have approximately 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • You must have experience shipping applications from scratch or working in an early-stage startup environment.
  • You must be an AI-fluent developer who natively leverages AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools in your daily workflow.
  • You must be comfortable writing and debugging code across multiple languages, such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Python.
  • You must have experience with deployment paradigms spanning next-gen platforms and traditional cloud ecosystems.
  • You must have approximately 3+ years of experience in technical storytelling and community engagement.
  • You must have a publicly available portfolio of peer-to-peer artifacts like GitHub repositories, technical blogs, or public speaking.
  • You should have an active community presence or leadership in developer spaces (preferred).

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