Manager , Developer Advocacy

Manager I, Developer Advocacy

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Developer Advocates at Datadog are engineers who share their expertise with practitioners across the community – customers and non‑customers alike. As an Engineering Manager on the Advocacy team, you will be a key people‑ and technical leader, managing a small team of Developer Advocates focused on Application Development and Performance.

• Lead a team of Developer Advocates, guiding their work priorities, identifying new career opportunities, and fostering a positive, high‑performance culture.
• Contribute to defining the team’s OKRs (objectives and key results) and strategy, driving the execution of these.
• Ensure your team consistently ships high‑quality output, removing technical and procedural roadblocks to help them do their best work.
• Strike a balance between management and hands‑on delivery, contributing high‑quality technical content (e.g., videos, talks) as needed to support the team, represent Datadog, and stay in touch with the work.
• Work across various internal teams, including Product, Engineering, and Marketing to ensure they are supported across the growing number of Advocacy initiatives and help prioritize requests.

• You are a former software developer, SRE, or other technical practitioner with strong technical judgment and experience building or maintaining production systems.
• You have 2–5 years of experience managing a small team, coaching their performance, guiding their career journey, and breaking down complex projects into achievable plans.
• An experienced and respected developer advocate, skilled at reaching software developers across multiple channels, such as written content, conference talks, workshops, live streaming or recording videos, contributing to open source, and participating in community events.
• You are comfortable with at least two programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js, Bash) and are familiar with modern infrastructure such as IaaS cloud services and containers.

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in‑house networking.
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions.
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive global benefits.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $154,000—$226,000 USD.

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries.

Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth.

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• Software Development

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