Senior Developer Advocate - Generative AI

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Data Engineering, DataDog, Node.js, Python Programming

Job Description

What You’ll Do:

• Act as a subject matter expert for GenAI on behalf of the Datadog advocacy and engineering teams.
• Create technical content by building demos, public speaking, blogging, and creating documentation and webinars to build Datadog’s reputation as a leader in the space.
• 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 deep feedback, including bug reporting, identifying usability challenges, and suggesting product enhancements.
• Identify customer pain points and gaps in the GenAI space and communicate these internally to advocate for new features, integrations, and fixes.
• Explore new problem areas to deliver prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and open-source contributions that benefit the community.
• Build awareness of Datadog as a technical leader within the GenAI communities you engage.

Who You Are:

We are looking for a trusted expert with specialization in at least one of the following domains. You are not expected to be an expert in all of these areas, but rather bring a depth of knowledge in one or more:

• Generative AI: You have deep knowledge of the current landscape, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and vector databases.
• AI Infrastructure: You have deep experience with the underlying hardware and software for AI, including GPU/TPU management, distributed training frameworks (e.g., Ray, PyTorch FSDP), and high-performance networking.
• Data for AI: You specialize in the data foundation of ML, including data engineering pipelines, feature stores, data quality and validation, and building systems for data-centric AI development.

You have:

• 10+ years experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner; including building and maintaining production systems
• 3+ years of experience as an advocate and / or equivalent experience e.g. skilled at reaching software developers across multiple channels, such as written content, conference talks, 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 2 programming languages (eg Python, Go, Node.js, bash) and are familiar with 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 contributed to open-source projects in the AI/ML space.
• You are an active member of AI/ML or MLOps 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.

Benefits and Growth: (Describe opportunities offered here)

• 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+
• Competitive global benefits

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.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$185,000—$215,000 USD