Datadog Staff Developer Advocate - Leadership at Datadog to serve as a technical leader and mentor, owning projects and driving executive-level storytelling. Work closely with product and engineering leaders to shape technical engagement.
Responsibilities
Be the key technical storyteller for our most senior technical executive audiences
Drive approach and execution of our overall first party technical event content programs, such as DASH and Datadog Summits, to tell authentic, compelling educational and inspirational stories for executive technical audiences
Define and drive executive-level advocacy programs for technical audiences, ensuring Datadog remains relevant to senior technical audiences (CTOs, VPs of Engineering, technical architects)
Represent Datadog’s point-of-view in the field to technical leaders at events and conferences.
Partner with and coach internal product and engineering leaders on effective public communication and presentations for the work they do
Represent Datadog leadership’s point-of-view for our solutions, engineering culture and industry trends that our technical users should be thinking about
Partner with event organizers to ensure success when involving Datadog and our customers, and the curation of the content most compelling its to attendees
Create content in one or more mediums to build Datadog's reputation as a leader in DevOps, Observability and Security e.g. building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports and more
Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions)
Qualification
You are multilingual
Required
Approximately 5+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner
Approximately 8+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership capacity (e.g., Principal Engineer, VP/Director+, Staff Developer Advocate) responsible for collaborating with peer leaders to set technical direction and influence product direction to serve user needs.
Approximately 3+ years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling content e.g. written content, conference talks, leading workshops, live streaming or recording videos, contributing to open source, and participating in community events
You have publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of presentations on technical topics
You have coached and enabled others to speak publicly and deliver compelling talks about their areas of subject matter expertise in a way that resonates with audiences, especially technical executives
Experience either working on technical conferences or events, either as a collaborator with organizers or as an organizer yourself
You enjoy self driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages
Preferred
You have experience working with regional teams to localize technical content and stories for your audiences
You are multilingual
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
