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
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Datadog's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Datadog.
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.
- 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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