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# Developer Advocate - Modern App Development

- **Company:** Datadog
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $194,000.0 - $237,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Open Source Technology, Peer-To-Peer (P2P), Discord
- **Published:** June 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/7985840/?gh_jid=7985840

## About the Role

* A builder with approximately 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally having shipped applications from scratch or worked within an early-stage startup environment where you've worn multiple hats.
 * An AI-fluent developer who natively leverages AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools as a core part of your regular, day-to-day development workflow.
 * Multi-stack familiar, comfortable writing and debugging code across multiple programming languages (such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Python) and experienced with deployment paradigms spanning next-gen platforms and traditional cloud ecosystems.
 * An authentic communicator with approximately 3+ years of experience in technical storytelling and community engagement, backed by a publicly available portfolio of peer-to-peer artifacts like GitHub repositories, technical blogs, video walkthroughs, or public speaking presentations.
 * A forward thinker who loves self-driven exploration of emerging technologies, and is deeply passionate about developer education, mentorship, and helping other engineers hone their craft.



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