Senior Developer Advocate - Data Observability

Datadog

Posted 2mo ago

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Act as a subject matter expert for data observability
Create content in one or more mediums to build Datadog's reputation
Partner with and coach internal product and customer engineering teams
Contribute to the product through feedback
Identify and pursue opportunities for events, programs, and community-focused work

10+ years of experience as a software developer, data engineer, SRE, or other practitioner building and maintaining production systems
3+ years of experience in advocacy, developer relations, or equivalent experience reaching technical audiences
Publicly available writing samples, demos, repositories, or recordings of technical presentations
Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure and container-based systems
A strong interest in self-directed learning and exploring new technologies, tools, and problem spaces
built, operated, or supported production data pipelines using distributed processing systems such as Apache Spark or Databricks
hands-on experience with analytics platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery
Understand how data flows through streaming systems such as Kafka or similar platforms
Familiar with how data teams reason about data quality, upstream and downstream impact, and change management
experience working with data lineage, metadata, or transformation tooling (for example dbt, OpenLineage, or related ecosystems)
comfortable working in at least one programming language commonly used in data systems (for example Python, Scala, Java, or Go)
strong SQL skills

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