Senior Developer Advocate - Data Observability
Core
Technical leader and mentor anchoring the Developer Advocacy team, enabling the Datadog community to solve real-world problems in data observability.
Role type
Senior Developer Advocate (Data Observability)
Builds
Content (demos, blogs, webinars, documentation), community programs, and feedback loops for product improvement.
Domain
Data Engineering, Observability, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
product features | client delivery
Required skills
Data engineering & processing systems (Apache Spark, Databricks), Data platforms & analytics systems (Snowflake, BigQuery), Streaming & event-driven data (Kafka), Data quality, lineage, and metadata concepts (dbt, OpenLineage), Programming & querying (Python, Scala, Java, Go, SQL)
Preferred skills
Experience supporting data pipelines for ML or AI systems, meaningful contributions to open source or shared technical tooling
Technologies
Apache Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Kafka, dbt, OpenLineage, Python, Scala, Java, Go
Responsibilities
Act as a subject matter expert for data observability; Create content to build Datadog's reputation; Partner with and coach internal product and customer engineering teams; Contribute to the product through feedback; Identify and pursue opportunities for community-focused work
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities
