Senior Developer Advocate

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Developer Advocate and become a key member of our remote team, focused on empowering developers and SREs within the Grafana community. This full-time role, based in UK time zones, requires substantial technical experience and excellent communication skills. You will create educational content, build community relationships, and provide product feedback. Success is measured by the success of our users. The role offers a competitive salary, equity, and bonus potential, along with other benefits. We strongly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Requirements

• Substantial technical experience, though this can come from a variety of different disciplines such as testing, software development, system integration, SRE, monitoring, observability, or operations
• Effective communicator with lots of patience. You will be interacting with people from all over the world with varying levels of experience with Grafana and communication styles
• Collaborative mindset that thrives in a culture of learning and sharing what you learn back to the team and community
• A background in a technical field such as a BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Technical writing skills, as shown through any form of past written work
• Presentation skills, for example any form of past speaking experience
• Willingness to travel 30% of the time

Responsibilities

• Create technical content to educate and empower developers & SREs; this can include sample applications, presentations, blog posts, and other materials
• Act as an ally and colleague of external practitioners who are getting started
• Build relationships with people across the community, to support & inspire
• Provide feedback on our products; help be a conduit of what the community is saying, to help us improve the feedback loop between what users need and what Grafana delivers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with observability, telemetry, application performance monitoring (APM) or similar
• History of participation in open source developer communities, in any form
• Experience with Cloud e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP is definitely a big plus
• Experience running or organizing communities

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)