Developer Advocate

Summary

Join Zyte, a globally distributed team, as a Developer Advocate to champion web scraping and data extraction tools. You will create engaging content (written, video, webinars, code samples) demonstrating Zyte tools, actively engage with developer communities, and speak at events. Responsibilities include educating developers, showcasing products, identifying external advocates, representing the developer perspective in marketing, and improving documentation. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of experience in developer advocacy or a related field, a strong understanding of web technologies and APIs, and excellent communication skills. A passion for developers and community engagement is essential. Zyte offers flexible work arrangements and 35 days of paid holidays.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in developer advocacy, community engagement, or related technical roles
• Strong understanding of web technologies, APIs, web scraping, and data extraction
• Demonstrable knowledge of Python
• Interest in web data extraction
• A passion for developers and helping developers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with some experience with public speaking
• Proven experience working with communities, social media, and blogging required

Responsibilities

• Create content (written, video, webinars) and code samples that demonstrate how to work with and integrate Zyte tools
• Engage with the community across social channels and forums and showcase how to solve web scraping challenges
• Educate, showcase and demo our products to our communities and beyond
• Speak at developer-focused events
• Write blog posts for Zyte and third-party sites
• Identify external advocates and community leaders, and support them as they talk about Zyte and web data extraction independent of us
• Represent the developer POV in the marketing team
• Work with our technical teams to identify content opportunities and channel community feedback
• Identify opportunities to improve documentation and be an active contributor
• Post regularly on the company’s social channels for our developer audience

Preferred Qualifications

• A background in community building and event hosting is a plus
• Self-motivated, self-reliant and able to prioritize tasks
• Strong team player
• Experience with Scrapy, headless browsers and web scraping is a plus but not a hard requirement

Benefits

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team
• Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work
• Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe
• Work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools
• 35 days paid holidays