Developer Advocate

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute a comprehensive community growth strategy for YugabyteDB, YugabyteDB AMP, and Meko.

• Manage and expand the Yugabyte community on Slack and Discord, while ensuring an active presence on platforms such as Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and X.

• Initiate programs that recognize participation, including community champions, contributor highlights, and office hours.

• Empower community members to become speakers, authors, contributors of sample applications, and hosts of meetups.

• Create and facilitate hands-on workshops focused on YugabyteDB, Meko agent memory, and multi-tenant Postgres applications using YugabyteDB AMP.

• Establish and promote Yugabyte-sponsored meetups, while also supporting chapters led by the community.

• Organize both virtual and in-person hackathons, including those centered around AI agents.

• Represent Yugabyte at developer conferences through demos, workshops, and booth presentations.

• Contribute to community programming at Yugabyte’s Distributed SQL Summit.

• Co-host workshops, meetups, and hackathons in collaboration with partners in cloud, AI frameworks, and open source.

• Develop sample applications, integrations, and tutorials.

• Produce demos, tutorials, sample applications, blogs, livestreams, and webinars.

• Organize workshops into reusable kits and starter templates.

• Ensure clarity and accuracy of developer-facing content, including quickstarts and getting-started paths.

• Gather community feedback and provide actionable insights to product and engineering teams.

• Monitor and report on community health metrics, including growth, engagement, attendance, and conversion to active usage.

• Assist in shaping DevRel strategy, processes, and tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in developer relations, advocacy, or community management, with a focus on programs developed from inception.

• Proven success in expanding an online developer community on platforms like Slack, Discord, or similar.

• Experience organizing and executing in-person events such as meetups, workshops, or hackathons.

• Technical expertise in building demos and sample applications, along with proficiency in SQL and Postgres.

• Knowledge of and innovative ideas for AI agent development, LLM frameworks, and vector search, or a demonstrated ability to quickly learn.

• Involvement in open source communities as a contributor, maintainer, or organizer.

• Strong presentation and facilitation skills, both in-person and on camera.

• Active presence and following within a relevant developer community on social media.

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced startup environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Candidates with valid U.S. work authorization are encouraged to apply; H-1B transfer or extension and F-1 CPT/OPT candidates may be considered.

• Familiarity with distributed databases, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure is preferred.

• Experience managing ambassador or champion programs is a plus.

• Background in executing co-marketing or joint events with technology partners is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity (when applicable)

• Health plans

• Retirement plans

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)