Staff Developer Relations Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Act as a representative for Render at conferences, meetups, hackathons, podcasts, and livestreams, delivering talks and live demonstrations on AI agents and full-stack applications.

• Create and facilitate hands-on workshops and hackathons, encompassing both curriculum development and technical arrangements.

• Establish the technical direction for DevRel, covering communities, ecosystems, events, and quality standards for presentations, workshops, and demonstrations.

• Function as the technical liaison for AI frameworks, agent tooling, and partners within the open-source ecosystem.

• Interact with technical communities on platforms such as GitHub, X, Discord, Reddit, and Hacker News.

• Address technical inquiries, troubleshoot deployments, and showcase Render's capabilities.

• Manage the developer feedback loop, offering prioritized insights to Product and Engineering upon delivery.

• Assist high-potential developers and startups via technical deep dives and architecture evaluations.

• Enhance the quality of the DevRel team through talk assessments, demo evaluations, and by setting a personal example.

• Monitor impact through event and workshop activations, community engagement, partner-driven adoption, and product adjustments.

• Develop demos and workshop materials for presentations, with DX Engineering transforming durable work into maintained examples or templates.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in developer relations, solutions engineering, or software engineering.

• Minimum of 3 years in a developer-facing position at a developer tools, cloud, or infrastructure organization.

• Proven history of delivering talks at esteemed developer conferences.

• Proficient in designing and conducting workshops.

• Experience in guiding a developer relations program, evaluating outcomes, and adjusting strategies.

• Practical knowledge of AI agents, including tool invocation, MCP servers, LLM APIs, and agent frameworks.

• Capability to build a functioning agent application live and explain production requirements such as long-running tasks, sandboxed code execution, and retries.

• Engineering expertise to deploy multi-service applications, interpret logs, trace failed deployments, and identify root causes.

• Familiarity with containers and Docker, networking essentials, CI/CD, environment setups, and infrastructure as code.

• Regular use of coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.

• Evidence of translating developer feedback into product modifications.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

• Pre-existing relationships in AI frameworks, agent tooling, or open-source communities (preferred).

• An established developer audience through talks, livestreams, newsletters, or social media (preferred).

• Experience in initiating or expanding in-person developer meetups (preferred).

• Background with durable workflows, background job systems, or sandboxed code execution (preferred).

• Previous use of Render (preferred).

• Must possess legal authorization to work in the United States.

• New visa sponsorship is typically not available; however, existing visa transfers may be considered at Render's discretion and require business approval.

🏝️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 401K plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage for you and a dependent.

• 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.

• FSAs and HSAs.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.

• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.

• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area.

• Home office stipends for remote Renders.

• Continuous learning benefits and related support.

• Equity offered.