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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
Reports to: Head of Developer Growth · New York, NY
NOTE: This is not a traditional social media or community management role. It’s a developer growth role that sits within the Product org.
Developers are already talking about Datadog - on Reddit, Discord, Hacker News, GitHub, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, forums, and places we probably haven’t found yet.
We’re hiring a Developer Engagement Lead to make sure we’re part of those conversations.
You’ll own how Datadog listens, responds, and participates across developer channels. That means running our existing developer social accounts, building our presence in new communities, creating the monitoring and response systems that help us find relevant conversations quickly, and connecting developers with the right people inside Datadog.
This is a builder role. We’re not looking for someone to manage a content calendar or simply moderate a community. We want someone who can build the operating model for developer engagement at scale.
You understand how developers behave online.
You’ve built an audience, community, engagement program, developer program, or similar function, and can point to outcomes you changed.
You have strong judgment about when a company should join a conversation and when it shouldn’t.
You are naturally curious. If developers suddenly start discussing something relevant to Datadog, your instinct is to understand why, find the thread, and figure out whether we should participate.
You think in systems. If ten people are manually forwarding Reddit posts into Slack, you want to build something better.
You’re comfortable with tooling, automation, monitoring platforms, APIs, AI, and lightweight workflows. You don’t necessarily need to be an engineer, but you should be comfortable working closely with engineers and technical products.
You can create structure where none exists: monitoring rules, triage processes, response playbooks, escalation paths, reporting, and measurement.
You know how to earn participation from internal experts rather than simply assigning them another marketing task.
You move quickly, have strong judgment, and know what can ship immediately versus what needs another set of eyes.
You have opinions about developer culture, platforms, formats, and internet behavior — and you update those opinions when the evidence changes.
You may come from Growth,Developer Marketing, Audience Development, Product, Media, Social, Technical Communications, or somewhere entirely different.
What matters most is that you can show us how you’ve built participation around an audience, created systems that scale engagement, and turned what people were saying into action.
Experience working with a technical or enthusiast audience is especially valuable.
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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.
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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