Northflank is hiring a
Developer Advocate

Summary

Northflank is seeking a highly technical developer advocate to join their team. The role involves fostering relationships with the developer community, creating content, and promoting Northflank's solutions. Key responsibilities include staying updated on the platform, creating engaging content, building relationships, driving conversations, identifying opportunities, communicating feedback, and working with the engineering team. Minimum qualifications are 2+ years of full-stack engineering experience, expertise in Kubernetes/containerization and cloud computing technologies, exceptional technical writing skills, passion for teaching, community-building experience, fluency in English, and willingness to travel. Desired qualifications include experience in developer advocacy, a bachelor's degree, familiarity with social media management, SEO, online marketing channels, design or video-editing tools, and experience with developer relations toolchains.

Requirements

• 2+ years full-stack engineering experience (JS/TS, Kubernetes, Docker, Heroku, or equivalent)
• Ability to write high-quality and easy to read code across multiple tech stacks
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes/containerization and cloud computing technologies, including hands-on experience with major cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Exceptional technical writing and presentation skills, with a proven ability to create engaging content for a developer audience
• Passion for teaching technical content to diverse audiences
• A track record of building and nurturing communities, both online and offline
• Experience organizing or launching community initiatives (social channels, online forum, events, newsletters)
• Willingness to travel to attend conferences, meetups, and other industry events
• Fluency in English to effectively serve our international user-base

Responsibilities

• Become an expert resource for our developer community by staying up-to-date on our platform's capabilities and the surrounding technical landscape
• Create engaging content to educate our users on Northflank, DevOps, and the cloud native ecosystem (documentation, blog posts, tutorials, demos, coding challenges, support articles, YouTube videos, feedback surveys)
• Build meaningful relationships with the developer community by engaging with their questions, pain points, and ideas through Northflank support channels, social channels, and developer sites like Hacker News and Reddit
• Drive conversations with our community about our product, trending topics in DevOps, and the cloud native ecosystem
• Identify and pursue opportunities to expand our community presence and developer trust (industry events, conferences, co-marketing partnerships, etc.)
• Communicate developer pain points and feedback to the rest of the GTM team
• Work with our engineering team to promptly respond to customer queries, feedback, and reported bugs

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in developer advocacy, developer relations, or a similar role within the technology industry
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Marketing, Communications or a related field
• Hands-on experience with social media management, SEO and/or online marketing channels
• Familiarity with developer relations toolchains and best practices for tracking and measuring the success of advocacy efforts
• Experience with design or video-editing tools (Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premier Pro)

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package
• Opportunity to be part of a fast-growing startup at the forefront of the cloud-native revolution