Technical Curriculum Developer - Security

As a Technical Curriculum Developer, you will join our Customer Education & Training team to help us deliver exceptional cloud engineering content to our customers, including the Datadog Learning Center, workshops, and certification exams. Working closely with our engineering, product, and customer success teams, you will work hands-on with the software, devops, and security technologies that Datadog monitors. You have strong security, software development, and instructional expertise to create new self-paced and instructor-led training for our customers. You will improve existing learning content for the ever-expanding solutions that we offer.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with our engineering and product teams to produce engaging high quality training courses and content for Datadog’s customer and partner curriculums


• Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate customer training requirements, and turn those requirements into a roadmap with clearly scoped courses that have well defined learning paths


• Communicate with customers to understand their technical needs in order to build courses that help them become proficient in using Datadog products


• Create high quality hands-on labs that can be delivered both as self paced online programs or instructor-led training


• Review demo code and courses created by other curriculum developers. Coach them to improve the technical and instructional quality of their work in line with their manager’s quarterly milestones.


• Coach experts around the company to deliver live workshops at Datadog events.


• Write application and infrastructure code to enhance existing learning project applications so that customers can learn to use Datadog security features


• Help create and maintain the technical systems and environments used in hands-on labs (GitHub Actions, disk image build workflows, installation scripts, and others)

Who You Are:

• You are a technical practitioner with experience in security, software development, devops, technical curriculum development, or related experience in creating educational material for an engineering and developer audience


• You have hands-on experience, specialist knowledge, or other experience in building learning content in cloud infrastructure, full-stack web development, mobile development, and/or microservices.


• You are able to transform dry technical topics into engaging, informative and interesting educational materials


• You are proficient in using services on AWS or other cloud providers that integrate with Datadog security products, such as cloud storage, logging, and access management policies.


• You are familiar with at least one Infrastructure as Code tool such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi, or similar


• You are comfortable using Docker or Kubernetes


• You are familiar with one or more security standards such as OWASP, certified ethical hacker, CNCF Security Certification, AWS Certified Security Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer, HashiCorp Vault certification, or other

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.