Datadog

Developer Advocate - Service Management

Datadog ๐Ÿ“ New York, USA ๐Ÿ”€ Hybrid Posted Aug 18, 2026 via Datadog careers
full-time ๐Ÿ“‚ Software Development ๐Ÿ”€ Hybrid ๐Ÿญ Technology

โœจ Job Highlights

  • โ˜…Pay: $136,000 to $170,000 a year
  • โ˜…Hybrid: New York
  • โ˜…Full-time role in software development
  • โ˜…Experience asked for: 5+ years
  • โ˜…Apply directly on Datadog's careers site
  • โ˜…Posted August 18, 2026

Full Job Description

Developer Advocate - Service Management job at Datadog in New York

Datadog has an opening for a Developer Advocate - Service Management, based in New York. Expect a hybrid setup: this is full-time work with regular office days. The salary range published with the job is $136,000 to $170,000 a year.

Datadog describes the job as follows.

We are a team of engineers that translate our real-world experience to help our user communities solve problems. With a focus on service management, helping teams respond to incidents, run on-call, and automate their operations, you will work with practitioners and leaders across the industry and broaden your impact to the SRE, Engineer, DevOps, and Operations community at large. This is a unique opportunity to use both your engineering and creative storytelling skills to shape the landscape in cloud observability, incident response and service management.

What You'll Do

  • Act as a subject matter expert for service management (incident response, on-call, IDP, Work Management, Workflow Automation, Agent Builder, and operational automation) for Datadog's advocacy and engineering teams
  • Create content in one or more mediums to build Datadog's reputation as a leader in DevOps, Monitoring, Observability and Security e.g. building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports and more
  • Partner with product engineering teams to build compelling demos, and coach internal engineering teams on effective communication and presentation
  • Interface with open source communities to drive key messaging in the market and develop new integrations for Datadog
  • Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions), documentation, or code
  • Who You Are

  • Approximately 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or Software Developer with hands-on experience as an on-call/incident responder and running production systems in complex IT environments
  • You have a strong understanding of core service-management practices (incident response, on-call, post incident reviews, and SLOs), using tools like Datadog, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, incident.io, Rootly, Jira Cloud Platform, Cortex, or similar and know how to navigate operational challenges of different sized organizations
  • Youโ€™re passionate about helping teams fix organizational challenges, not just technical ones and where they intersect, and have shared your knowledge broadly.
  • Approximately 2+ years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling content e.g. written content, speaking at conferences like SREcon, DevOpsDays or SREday, leading workshops, live streaming or recording videos, contributing to open source and participating in community events.
  • You have publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of presentations on technical topics
  • You are comfortable with at least one scripting and programming languages (eg Node.js, Python, Go, bash) and are familiar with working with APIs and modern infrastructure such as IaaS cloud services and containers
  • You enjoy self driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages
  • Bonus points

  • You have hands-on ITSM platform experience (ServiceNow, Jira Service Management)
  • You are already an active member of SRE, DevOps, or incident-response communities
  • Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If youโ€™re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

    Benefits and Growth

  • 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
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  • Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

    Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

    Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

    The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $136,000 to $170,000 USD

    About Datadog:

    Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

    Equal Opportunity at Datadog

    Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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    Quick answers

    How much does this Developer Advocate - Service Management job pay?

    Datadog advertises $136,000 to $170,000 a year for this role.

    Is the Developer Advocate - Service Management position remote?

    It is hybrid. You would work partly from home and partly from the office in New York.

    What does Datadog look for in candidates?

    The posting mentions at least 5 years of relevant experience and skills such as Python, Go, Node.js and Jira. Read the full description above for the complete list.

    How do I apply for the Developer Advocate - Service Management job?

    Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Datadog's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.

    Is this job still open?

    Datadog published the role on August 18, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.

    Source: Datadog careers page (careers.datadoghq.com). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.

    Required Skills

    Python Go Node.js Jira Onboarding Public Speaking

    ๐Ÿข About Datadog

    We tackle some of the hardest technical problems while delivering a product that "just works" for our customers. And we are backed by some of the best VCs in NYC and the world. Do you want to make a difference? Are you exceptional at your job, and intrinsically motivated by it? Do you eat hard problems for breakfast and find them beautifully simple solutions by lunchtime? Do you ever wish you were there in the early days of these startups everyone is talking about? If so, we want to hear…

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    ๐Ÿข Company Datadog
    ๐Ÿ“ Location New York, USA
    ๐Ÿ’ผ Job Type full-time
    ๐ŸŒ Work Mode ๐Ÿ”€ Hybrid
    ๐Ÿญ Industry Technology
    ๐Ÿ—“ Posted Date Aug 18, 2026
    ๐Ÿ”— Via Datadog careers
    ๐ŸŽฏ Experience 5+ years
    ๐Ÿ“… Deadline Dec 16, 2034

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