We are looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join the Open Source Strategy & Marketing team.
Our creative, experienced, and energetic organization is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of OpenSearch. In this role, youll combine your technical skills, passion, and creativity to generate grass-roots attention and support for OpenSearch among key industry innovators and technologists.
Ideally, youre someone who comes from a software development, database, or SRE background; but you love to be on stage or on screen guiding the community towards technologies that you believe in. You have immediate credibility with startups, developers, architects, and technology leaders. Youre excited about open source software and search engines. You love to share your passion with others and you exhibit judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.
This Developer Advocate role will have substantial travel to connect with the OpenSearch community. Between travel, youll interact with community actively on GitHub by reviewing and commenting on code, contributing to the OpenSearch docs, and by creating written content in the public on the OpenSearch website.
Key job responsibilities:
Creating and maintaining relevant content (demos, videos, blogs, podcasts, livestreams, etc), covering OpenSearch along with emerging technologies and industry developments.
Gaining industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee and speaker at third-party technology conferences, shows, and press events.
Curating, developing, and delivering compelling presentations to help drive awareness and adoption of OpenSearch.
Maintaining a credible presence in social media
Ability to travel (including internationally when needed) and ability to work autonomously
A day in the life:
As an influencer, you'll use your unique personality and authentic content to help attract contributors and users to OpenSearch and keep them engaged and inspired to build.
As a part of the OpenSearch project, you'll engage with Builders to identify and anticipate user challenges. You will represent the voice of Builders with internal service teams and leverage the data you gathered from the community to help influence the project.
As an ambassador, you'll build long-term relationships with members of the OpenSearch community. You'll work with others in the OpenSearch community to identify areas to engage, amplify the materials and resources you create, and identify areas of improvement in the project's public content.
Requirements: BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years working in a hands-on technical role in software development (backend or fullstack development), architecture, database administration, or operations (SRE, DevOps).
- Experience contributing to an open source project.
- Experience with public speaking, content creation, and presentation skills (in person and online).
- Experience working with technical communities.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Hands-on knowledge and experience with OpenSearch.
- Understanding of NoSQL data modelling and distributed systems.
- Demonstrable following in social and technical channels such as Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, Twitch, or other local platforms.
- Experience managing and/or maintaining medium to large scale projects on GitHub.
- Success in nurturing, engaging with, and growing large open source projects.
- Track record of contributing to documentation and/or writing technical how-to content.
This position is open to all candidates.