Datadog
Developer Advocate - Service Management
Technical advocate who turns hands-on SRE and on-call experience into demos, talks, and content that educates the operations community on incident response and service management.
Captured October 2026Still open as of Oct 11, 2026 ↗
The role
This developer advocacy role sits within an engineering-minded advocacy team focused on service management, covering incident handling, on-call rotations, and operational automation. The person acts as a subject matter expert for both internal advocacy and engineering groups and extends the company's reach into the wider SRE and DevOps community.
What you would do
- Serve as the in-house expert on incident handling, on-call workflows, and automation for advocacy and engineering teams
- Produce varied educational material such as demos, talks, articles, documentation, webinars, and research pieces
- Work alongside product engineers to build demonstrations and coach colleagues on clear presentation
- Engage open source communities to spread core messages and build new integrations
- Feed product improvements back through bug reports, feature suggestions, docs, or code contributions
What they asked for
- Around five years in platform, SRE, DevOps, or software development roles including on-call and production operations
- Solid grasp of incident response, on-call practice, post-incident reviews, and SLOs
- Familiarity with common service management and incident tooling
- Interest in fixing organizational as well as technical problems and sharing that knowledge widely
- Around two years creating technical content such as writing, conference talks, workshops, or video
- Comfort with at least one scripting or programming language and with APIs and cloud infrastructure
- Public samples of writing, demos, or presentations on technical subjects
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow or Jira Service Management
- Active participation in SRE, DevOps, or incident-response communities
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