UpBound is hiring a
Developer Advocate

Summary

Join Upbound as a Developer Advocate and operate at the intersection of engineering and evangelism for Upbound's core suite of products. As a cross-functional role, you'll be both an ecosystem influencer and technical product evangelist, engaging with developers to improve their journey of adoption by helping them navigate and reduce friction points along the way.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years combined experience as a Developer Advocate within open source communities combined with other technical roles (e.g. SWE, Developer, Engineering Ops, Technical Support etc)
• Clear communication skills to different internal and external audiences in both written and verbal mediums
• Enjoy giving technical presentations to audiences that span the technical to semi-technical spectrum
• Are well versed in the enterprise software and cloud native landscapes
• Quickly pick up and navigate highly technical cloud infrastructure architectures, challenges, and concepts
• Previously helped launch a developer product and have grown a thriving community around it
• Regularly create technical documentation, blogs, and other forms of media that clearly articulate solutions and drive adoption
• Maintain an active and credible presence in developer communities and social media channels
• Programmed in a modern coding language such as Go
• Enjoy being an educator and thought partner to developers and open source community members
• Love solving problems

Responsibilities

• Write code
• Shape and execute a strategy around driving developer awareness and adoption of Upbound products
• Work with the product, engineering and growth teams to improve the onboarding and overall experience of developers
• Identify and build relationships with key influencers with the aim of fostering a strong community, as well as collect feedback about the product and technical blockers, if any
• Closely partner with the Upbound Marketing team to organize and develop content for meet-ups, events, conferences, webinars and related activities
• Author compositions, configurations, and reference platforms to reduce adoption friction and accelerates the developer’s journey from open source to professional, enterprise and business critical product tiers. See https://github.com/upbound/platform-ref-aws as an example
• Create content such as videos, blogs, tech talks, live streams, tutorials, document best practices, and author white papers to enable operators and developers to quickly and successfully leverage Upbound
• Collaborate with internal product engineering and marketing teams to help shape the product roadmap, market positioning, and developer program initiatives
• Attend webinars, industry events as well as company conferences such as Kubecon (35+% travel… eventually)

Preferred Qualifications

• Are actively involved or have contributed to the upstream Kubernetes community
• Written Kubernetes controllers in Go
• Previously worked in a distributed/remote startup and have thrived