Staff Developer Advocate

Datadog

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$255,000–$310,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $188k
This role $282k
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This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $158,437–$218,325 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $282k versus about $188k 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 266 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $161,000–$205,000 across 138 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Developer Advocate

Staff Developer Advocate - Leadership serves as a technical leader and mentor within the advocacy team to bridge the gap between engineering and executive audiences. You will act as a primary storyteller for senior technical executives, crafting compelling narratives around DevOps, Observability, and Security. Day-to-day responsibilities include driving first-party event content programs like DASH and Datadog Summits, coaching internal product leaders on public speaking, and creating multi-medium content such as demos, blog posts, and research reports. The role requires extensive experience in software development or SRE practices, combined with a proven track record in technical leadership and storytelling. You will leverage skills in public speaking, workshop facilitation, and community engagement to build credibility with CTOs and VPs of Engineering while providing feedback on product enhancements to solve complex infrastructure challenges for the user base.

What you'll do

  • Act as the primary technical storyteller for senior executive audiences including CTOs and VPs of Engineering.
  • Drive the strategy and execution of first-party technical event content programs like DASH and Datadog Summits.
  • Develop and lead advocacy programs to ensure brand relevance among high-level technical decision-makers.
  • Represent the company's point of view on products, engineering culture, and industry trends at public events.
  • Coach internal product and engineering leaders on effective public communication and presentation techniques.
  • Create multi-channel content including demos, blog posts, webinars, and research reports to build brand authority.
  • Provide feedback to the product team regarding bugs and potential feature enhancements.

What we're looking for

  • You must have approximately 5+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner.
  • You must have approximately 8+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership capacity.
  • You must have approximately 3+ years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling content across various media.
  • You must provide publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of presentations on technical topics.
  • You must have experience coaching others to speak publicly and deliver compelling talks for technical executive audiences.
  • You should have experience working on or organizing technical conferences and events.
  • Being multilingual is a preferred qualification.
  • Experience working with regional teams to localize technical content is a preferred qualification.

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