Developer Advocacy Lead

Summary

Join Redpanda, a fast-growing, remote-first company, as a Developer Evangelist. You will develop and execute a technical content strategy, create engaging content (blogs, videos, podcasts), build relationships with developers, and speak at conferences. This role requires strong collaboration skills and experience with various technologies. You'll be a subject matter expert on streaming data and related topics, measuring the impact of your work through data analysis. Redpanda offers a competitive salary and a supportive remote work environment.

Requirements

• Passion for all things developer experience, social engagement, and fostering relationships in developer communities
• Strong cross-team collaboration skills for internal and external engagement around streaming data technologies
• Hands-on experience creating code-intensive content in various formats such as videos, live streams, podcasts, and blogs
• Familiarity with Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, and Python
• Public speaking experience and desire to present to small and large groups, meetups, and conferences
• Demonstrated engagement on Twitter, Reddit, Bluesky, Dev.to, and other developer-centric channels
• Creativity, curiosity, wit, humor, and a sense of collaboration in your creative process
• Solid project management skills with a high bar for content quality and empathy for collaborating in remote teams
• A framework for measuring performance via metrics and decisions based on data
• Curiosity to experiment with new technologies and stay abreast of current developments
• Experience building distributed data applications, including real-time and batch processing systems, experience with Kafka and the broader ecosystem
• Proficiency in written English, with examples of work that demonstrates your ability to simplify complex concepts for developers

Responsibilities

• Develop a strategy with quarterly roadmaps for technical content and community development based on business priorities
• Contribute hands-on to technical content development, content editing, ideation and speaking engagements where you will represent Redpanda
• Develop relationships with counterparts in the community including partner advocates (and competitors), and influencers, and foster trust
• Engage with product and engineering teams to provide feedback on Redpanda’s end-to-end developer experience
• Assist the marketing team in designing developer outreach campaigns, and support marketing launches and demand generation various campaigns with appropriate community activities
• Goal and measure the impact of your activities through data
• Stay current with the data platforms market and identify new opportunities for showcasing Redpanda with emerging infrastructure and data stacks
• Be a subject matter expert on topics not limited to streaming data, event processing, real-time applications, serverless systems and cloud-native development

Preferred Qualifications

Your best examples for developer content, talks, community strategies and goal planning

Benefits

• U.S. base salary range for this role is $188,500, - $215,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $177,000 - $208,000 (other US locations)
• 100% remote organization with team members around the globe