• Partner with our product and engineering teams, manage documentation projects, and create public user documentation, with a focus on Datadog integrations. Dig into source code for community and internally developed systems to collect technical details for documentation.
• Create developer-facing documentation and guides for APIs, developer and SRE tools, and the Agent, to enable the developer and monitoring community to onboard and succeed with our products.
• Collaborate with the docs team and our open source community to develop documentation standards and continually improve our processes.
• As a senior team member, you will also provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to others in the team.
• Depending on the individual and team capacity, you may also contribute to our monthly newsletter, sent to over 500,000 customers per month.

Required Qualifications:

• You are an experienced technical writer, at least 5 years of relevant experience, developing documentation with a developer or SRE audience, including SDK documentation.
• You are experienced in using Markdown, a static-site generator, and Github to develop and publish documentation with a ‘Docs as Code’ approach.
• You are comfortable and familiar with using basic Python and reading at least 1 other programming language (e.g., Java, Ruby).
• You are comfortable and familiar with modern infrastructure such as IaaS cloud services and containers.
• You have publicly available technical writing samples.
• You have experience managing large and complex documentation sets and developing well-structured and effective information architecture.

​

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bonus points if you have experience with open source and partner ecosystem integrations and documentation development.

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:

• 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.