Senior Developer Advocate - Data Observability
Our Senior Developer Advocates are technical leaders and mentors that anchor our team. They own projects from beginning to end, facilitating collaboration and enabling Datadog's community to solve real-world problems.
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Senior Developer Advocate - Data Observability at Datadog in Remote (United States). UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Our Senior Developer Advocates are technical leaders and mentors that anchor our team. They own projects from beginning to end, facilitating collaboration and enabling Datadog's community to solve real-world problems.
Day-to-day expectations
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- Act as a subject matter expert for data observability on behalf of the Datadog advocacy and engineering teams
- Create content in one or more mediums to build Datadog's reputation as a leader in data engineering and observability e.g. building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports and more
- Partner with and coach internal product and customer engineering teams on effective public communication and presentations for the work they do
- Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions)
- Identify and pursue opportunities for events, programs, and other community-focused work that establishes trust with practitioners
- Data engineering & processing systems: You have built, operated, or supported production data pipelines using distributed processing systems such as Apache Spark or Databricks, and understand common failure modes, performance tradeoffs, and operational challenges in batch and hybrid pipelines.
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- 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+
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- 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+
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