Social Media Lead, Developer Audience
- Location
- New York, NY
- Salary
- $139,000—$164,000 USD
- Posted
- 2026-08-03
Job description
What You’ll Do:
Own the voice, editorial standard, and publishing cadence for Datadog’s developer channels (@datadogdevs on X, Datadog Developers on LinkedIn)
Treat replies as a primary surface. The best accounts win in the mentions, not the feed
Expand into the places developers actually spend time: Reddit, YouTube, Discord, Bluesky, dev.to, Hacker News, and whatever you make the case for. Always openly as Datadog — developers catch anything else immediately, and you only get caught once
Turn shipped engineering work into things people want to read and watch. Releases, changelogs, war stories, the occasional postmortem that deserves a wider audience
Build the attribution model connecting what you publish to trials and signups. Nobody is handing you this one
Run real experiments: a hypothesis, a readout, and the willingness to kill something publicly when it doesn’t work
Lead the developer content engine around events
Get other people posting — Datadog engineers under their own names, and developers outside the company who already like us and could use the support
Track what developers are saying about us and our competitors, and route it back to product and growth
Who You Are:
You’ve grown an audience from a small number to a large one
You can point to outcomes your content moved, not just reach
You’re a strong writer with a distinctive voice, and you know the difference between writing about an audience and writing for one
You have opinions about formats, platforms, and pacing, and you change them when the algorithms demand it
You know what ships now and what needs a second set of eyes
You’re a vibe poster (or coder) and you know how to build hype
You’re comfortable with tools and automation, and you’d rather build a workflow than repeat a task
You distrust vanity metrics
Your writing doesn’t get scrolled past