Senior Developer Advocate - Data Observability
Core
Technical leader and mentor anchoring the Data Observability team, enabling the Datadog community to solve real-world problems and build better software.
Role type
Senior Developer Advocate (Data Observability)
Builds
Community trust, technical content (demos, talks, docs), and product feedback loops for data engineering and observability tools.
Domain
Data Engineering, Observability, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
product features | dashboards & analysis | 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, 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 teams on public communication, contribute to the product through feedback, identify and pursue community-focused opportunities
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
