Developer Advocate - Service Management EMEA

Datadog
France
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates with hands-on service management experience and a passion for technical storytelling, comfortable with creating public-facing content and working remotely in the EMEA region.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in incident response and on-call rotations in complex IT environments
    — “running production systems in complex IT environments”
  • Individuals who have actively contributed to open source and spoken at technical conferences
    — “speaking at conferences like SREcon, DevOpsDays or SREday”
  • Candidates with a background in DevOps, SRE, or operations who enjoy shaping community narratives
    — “helping teams fix organizational challenges, not just technical ones and where they intersect”

Things to consider

  • Requires a balance between engineering and content creation skills with no explicit seniority level defined
    — “approximately 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or Software Developer”
  • Candidates must be prepared to interface with open source communities and contribute to them
    — “Interface with open source communities to drive key messaging in the market”

How to stand out

  • Highlight open source contributions and public speaking engagements in your resume and interview
    — “publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of presentations on technical topics”
  • Demonstrate your ability to translate real-world operational challenges into educational content
    — “translate our real-world experience to help our user communities solve problems”
  • Showcase experience with incident response tools and workflows in your portfolio or interview examples
    — “using tools like Datadog, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, http://incident.io , Rootly, Jira Cloud Platform, Cortex, or similar”
  • Emphasize your ability to collaborate with product engineering teams and coach others on communication
    — “Partner with product engineering teams to build compelling demos, and coach internal engineering teams on effective communication and presentation”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • effective demos
  • compelling content creation
Typical background
platform engineerSREDevOps engineer

Skills & requirements

Required

Service ManagementIncident ResponseOn-callDevOpsSREOpen Source Community EngagementContent Creation

Preferred

ITSM Platform ExperienceActive Community Member

Stack & domain

Service ManagementIncident ResponseOn-callIDPWork ManagementWorkflow AutomationAgent BuilderOperational AutomationPublic SpeakingDocumentationWebinarsOpen SourceResearch ReportsApisIaas Cloud ServicesContainersCommunicationStorytellingTeamworkProblem-solvingAdaptabilityDevOpsMonitoringObservabilitySecurity

About the role

Original posting from Datadog

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, http://incident.io , Rootly, Jira Cloud Platform, Cortex, or similar and know how to navigate operational challenges of different sized organizations

You’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 you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

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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.

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