Technical Author

Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or high-scale infrastructure. Because Datadog collects metrics and events from 100+ different technologies and services out of the box, including other monitoring tools, you can monitor your entire stack in one place, without any gaps.

We are building a team of writers within one of the fastest-growing startups in New York. We are looking for writers with coding skills to join our team on a full-time basis. Our team’s primary goal is to pitch, research, and write in-depth articles that software engineers and ops engineers will want to read, discuss, and share with their peers. Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. Our product was built by engineers, for engineers, so we aim to be deeply knowledgeable, accurate, engaging, and useful in all of our communications. We don’t write fluff.

* Identify and define articles that Datadog should create * Write articles that are authoritative, practical, and clear, such as: * Deep dives on modern technologies * In-depth monitoring guides or use-cases * Thought leadership pieces * Build relationships with journalists, analysts, tech bloggers, open source contributors and product community leaders. * Continually measure reader engagement with content, and iterate to improve content definition, craft, and distribution. You will have the support of Datadog engineers and other technical team members when you need an expert opinion.

* You are a polished, published writer * You have at least some code in a publicly available repo Successful candidates will be comfortable researching new technologies, learning how to use them, and reducing their complex workings to clear prose.