Datadog

Developer Advocate - Service Management

Datadog · California, USA, Remote; New York, USA, Remote

Posted 29 days ago · $160,000 - $200,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
29 days
Datadog's roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
0% of Datadog's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Datadog
low
0 stale, 32 reposted of 455 open
Hiring momentum
589 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

In this role, you will act as a Developer Advocate focusing on service management, helping teams with incident response and operational automation. You will create content, engage with communities, and collaborate with product engineering teams to enhance Datadog's reputation in the DevOps and observability space. Your responsibilities will include public speaking, writing, and contributing to open source projects while leveraging your technical expertise.

Our read on this posting4.4out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
4/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
5/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Datadog as an employer.

What you need

  • Approximately 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or Software Developer
  • Hands-on experience as an on-call/incident responder and running production systems in complex IT environments
  • Strong understanding of core service-management practices including incident response and on-call
  • Experience with tools like Datadog, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira Cloud Platform
  • Approximately 2+ years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling content
  • Publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of presentations on technical topics

Nice to have

  • Hands-on ITSM platform experience (ServiceNow, Jira Service Management)
  • Active member of SRE, DevOps, or incident-response communities

What you get

  • Generous and competitive benefits package
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous career development opportunities
  • Product training to develop understanding of our product and space
  • Best in breed onboarding
  • Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of remote work flexibility beyond the locations listed
  • Salary range provided, but actual compensation may vary based on skills and experience
  • Role may require balancing technical and creative tasks, which could be challenging for some candidates

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Listed by Datadog on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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