Senior Developer Advocate

Summary

Join Samsara, a pioneer in the Connected Operations™ Cloud, and become a Senior Developer Advocate. You will create impactful content and resources for developers, influence the direction of developer offerings, and drive community growth. This role requires strong communication skills, experience in developer advocacy or software development, and a proven track record of creating engaging technical content. You will work with a world-class team and have the opportunity to make a real-world impact. The role is open to candidates in the US and Canada. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package and benefits.

Requirements

• 4-6+ years in developer advocacy or in a comparable role (e.g. software development)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and proficient in communicating technical concepts simplistically
• Must be comfortable presenting to customers, partners, and internal audiences, and must exhibit empathy for a wide range of developers (e.g. developers just starting out, developers using the latest technologies, developers coding on legacy stacks)
• Proven track record of delivering engaging, well-written, and technically robust enablement content for a technical audience (e.g. guides, blogs, videos)
• A key portion of the interview process will be walking the interviewers through a sample app and/or piece of technical content you created
• Bias-to-action and hands-on experience delivering business results
• You’re not afraid to get your hands dirty
• B.S., M.S., or technical degree related to software development
• Experience working with REST APIs, JSON, Webhooks, Python, and App Development
• Strong hands-on developer who is comfortable with understanding and building software applications

Responsibilities

• Create high-impact 1:many content and resources for developers , including sample applications, developer guides, video tutorials, and more
• Influence the direction of our developer offerings through running tight feedback loops with developers, identifying key developer experience gaps, and championing empathy for the developer persona across Samsara
• Drive growth of the developer community by engaging with and fostering interactions between developers through office hours, hackathons, webinars, forums, developer campaigns, owning the Developer Track at Samsara’s customer conference, oand more
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with enterprise customer goals & expectations from a technical perspective
• Builder mindset, as evidenced by technical side projects and contributions to open-source projects
• Proficient in other common coding languages (e.g. Java, Javascript, SQL, .NET)

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Remote and flexible working