Developer Relations Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Deliver maintained reference implementations, encompassing MCP servers with production authentication, gateway setups, and agentic workflows.

• Educate developers on agentic workflows through demonstrations, technical articles, conference presentations, and videos.

• Oversee the technical aspects of video content across platforms such as YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and TikTok.

• Utilize Prefect tools as an initial user, pinpoint DX gaps, report issues, contribute documentation pull requests, and enhance examples.

• Represent Prefect in public forums through conference presentations, PyAI, livestreams, podcast episodes, and MCP/Python AI communities.

• Collect feedback on confusion, failures, and absent features, transforming it into actionable product insights for engineering teams.

• Write in Python or other programming languages weekly while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.

• Report directly to the Chief Growth Officer.

• Travel for events, spending several days each quarter in Prefect's recording studio.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of professional software development experience; strong Python skills are preferred.

• A publicly accessible portfolio of technical work, including repositories, articles, documentation, talks, or videos utilized by developers.

• Experience in building with LLMs and agents, covering MCP servers, tool invocation, agent frameworks, or retrieval.

• Insights on what issues arise when LLM and agent products are delivered to users.

• Comfortable on camera and stage, or demonstrably capable of becoming proficient in public speaking.

• Ability to work independently as a one-person team, making choices, delivering, and assessing work autonomously.

• Active involvement or significant contribution to a well-regarded open-source project (preferred).

• An existing developer audience on platforms like YouTube, X, Twitch, a newsletter, or similar (preferred).

• Background in data engineering or orchestration with Prefect, Dagster, Airflow, or dbt (preferred).

• Capability to discuss SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and PII with platform or security engineers (preferred).

• Must be authorized to work in the United States of America.

• Visa sponsorship requirements must be clearly communicated.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first team with a flexible culture.

• Equity Stock Options.

• 401(k) with a 5% company match (immediate vesting!).

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.

• Generous Parental Leave policy.

• Life Insurance and Disability benefits.

• $800/month stipend for remote work expenses.