Datadog

Datadog

Senior Developer Advocate - Data Observability

Remote (Worldwide)RemotePosted Today$172,000 – $215,000
Full TimeSeniorRemote

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Job Description

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 rea

Key Highlights

  • 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

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Data platforms & analytics systems: You have hands-on experience with analytics platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery, including schema design, data modeling, SQL-based analysis, and reasoning about performance, cost, and access patterns in real-world environments.
  • Streaming & event-driven data: You understand how data flows through streaming systems such as Kafka or similar platforms, including producer and consumer behavior, lag, delivery semantics, and how streaming issues propagate into downstream datasets and analytics.
  • Data quality, lineage, and metadata concepts: You are familiar with how data teams reason about data quality, upstream and downstream impact, and change management, and have experience working with data lineage, metadata, or transformation tooling (for example dbt, OpenLineage, or related ecosystems), or have operated in environments where these concepts are core to reliability.
  • Programming & querying: You are comfortable working in at least one programming language commonly used in data systems (for example Python, Scala, Java, or Go), along with strong SQL skills, and you can move fluidly between code, queries, and notebooks when exploring or demonstrating data systems.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting data pipelines for ML or AI systems
  • Meaningful contributions to open source or shared technical tooling

Skills & Technologies

SQLKafkaPythonScalaJavaGo

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Job Details

Employment Type

Full Time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary Range

$172,000 – $215,000

Location

Remote (Worldwide)

Work Mode

Remote

Posted

Today