Senior Developer Advocate

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a remote Developer Advocate and help educate developers, SREs, and administrators on building with Grafana. This role requires substantial technical experience and excellent communication skills. You will create technical content, build community relationships, and provide product feedback. The ideal candidate is passionate about open source and enjoys teaching. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits, including equity and a bonus.

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)