Developer Engagement Lead

The posting, as Datadog wrote it

Developer Engagement Lead

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.

What you'll own

• Build our developer listening and engagement system. Create the tooling and workflows to monitor conversations about Datadog, our products, our competitors, and the problems developers are trying to solve across Reddit, Hacker News, Discord, GitHub, X, LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, YouTube, and other relevant platforms.
• Turn monitoring into action. Build a process for identifying conversations worth joining, determining when Datadog should respond, and routing questions or feedback to the right engineer, PM, DevRel, support, or product expert.
• Own our developer channels. Run @datadogdevs on X and Datadog Developers on LinkedIn, including publishing, engagement, replies, and experimentation.
• Expand where Datadog participates. Establish and grow our presence in places where developers already spend time. That may include launching Discord, creating a stronger Reddit strategy, building participation models for Hacker News or GitHub, or identifying entirely new channels.
• Make Datadog more responsive. Define response guidelines, escalation paths, ownership models, and expectations so developer conversations don’t disappear into screenshots and Slack threads.
• Participate directly. Know when to respond as Datadog, when to pull in an expert, when an engineer should answer under their own name, and when the best response is simply to listen.
• Create feedback loops into Product. Surface recurring questions, pain points, objections, competitive mentions, product feedback, and emerging developer conversations to Product, Engineering, Developer Growth, and other relevant teams.
• Get more technical voices into the conversation. Make it easy for Datadog engineers, PMs, researchers, and other experts to participate directly in developer conversations instead of relying exclusively on brand accounts.
• Turn shipped work into conversations. Find compelling ways to bring releases, changelogs, technical content, demos, events, a

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lass, 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:
$139,000 — $164,000 USD

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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