Senior Developer Experience Advocate

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

📋 Description

• Design and develop prototypes, reference implementations, and sample repositories.

• Create functional prototypes to verify product direction and speed up engineering iterations.

• Develop tools that alleviate challenges in analytics engineering workflows.

• Write technical content for the dbt Developer Blog, guides, and documentation.

• Share insights on data and analytics engineering knowledge and best practices.

• Create enablement materials for internal teams and the dbt Community.

• Act as a subject matter expert during product launches.

• Represent the product area in Community Slack, GitHub, conferences, and public forums.

• Gather and synthesize community feedback for product and engineering teams.

• Incorporate practitioner viewpoints into product design reviews.

• Identify potential issues, regressions, and gaps in developer experience.

• Manage and triage open-source repositories and community initiatives.

• Contribute to code and design reviews that focus on developer ergonomics.

• Report directly to the Director of Community, Developer Experience & AI.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related field.

• Strong understanding of the data industry and its evolving landscape.

• Hands-on experience with dbt and practitioner-level fluency.

• Excellent public communication skills in both spoken and written technical formats.

• Proven history of published articles or public-facing content related to data or analytics engineering.

• Solid foundation in data and analytics engineering principles.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL.

• Ability to contribute to open-source codebases.

• Familiarity and comfort with AI technologies.

• Capability to work independently as a self-starter with minimal supervision.

• Operational discipline to prioritize tasks and communicate them effectively across various contexts.

• Strong product intuition and the ability to convert user needs into actionable product feedback.

• Genuine passion for a role that engages with the public.

• Position is based in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance.

• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO).

• Paid sick leave.

• Inclusive parental leave policy.

• Holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest.

• Volunteer days off.

• RSU stock grants.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Company virtual happy hours.

• Complimentary food.

• Enjoyable team-building activities.

• Monthly cell phone stipend.

• Access to an innovative mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for employees and their dependents.