Developer Advocate

Overview

Yugabyte is hiring a Developer Advocate focused on community to grow and energize the developers building with YugabyteDB, YugabyteDB AMP, and Meko.

What you'll do

• Build and run a community growth plan across YugabyteDB, YugabyteDB AMP, and Meko, with goals for membership, active participation, and contribution.
• Run and grow the Yugabyte community Slack and Discord, and build an active presence on Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and X.
• Launch programs that recognize and reward participation, such as a community champions program, contributor spotlights, and regular office hours.
• Turn active community members into speakers, authors, sample app contributors, and meetup hosts.
• Design and deliver workshops that take developers from first install to a working app, including labs on building agent memory with Meko and multi-tenant Postgres applications on YugabyteDB AMP.
• Launch and scale Yugabyte-run meetups in key developer hubs, and support community-led chapters with playbooks, content, and swag.
• Organize virtual and in-person hackathons, including AI agent hackathons built on Meko and YugabyteDB.
• Represent Yugabyte at developer conferences such as KubeCon, PGConf.dev, Linux Foundation events, and AI engineering conferences, running demos, workshops, and booth sessions.
• Contribute community programming to Yugabyte's Distributed SQL Summit, such as hands-on labs, community tracks, and DevRel sessions.
• Co-host workshops, meetups, and hackathons with cloud, AI framework, and open source ecosystem partners.
• Create sample apps, integrations, and tutorials showing YugabyteDB, AMP, and Meko working alongside agent frameworks, developer tools, and cloud platforms.
• Build relationships with user groups and open source projects in the Postgres, Kubernetes, and AI agent communities.
• Produce demos, tutorials, sample apps, blogs, livestreams, and webinars, both live and recorded.
• Package workshops into reusable kits and starter templates that community leaders and partners can run on their own.
• Hold developer-facing content, quickstarts, and getting-started paths to a high bar for clarity and accuracy.
• Collect feedback from community channels, events, and hackathons and bring it to product and engineering in an actionable form.
• Track and report community health, including growth, engagement, event attendance, and conversion to active usage.
• Help shape the DevRel strategy, processes, and tooling, including community platforms and the event tech stack.

What you'll need

• 5+ years in developer relations, developer advocacy, or developer community management, including programs you built from the ground up.
• A track record of growing an online developer community on Slack, Discord, or a similar platform.
• Experience planning and running in-person events such as meetups, workshops, or hackathons.
• Hands-on technical skills, including building demos and sample apps and working comfortably with SQL and Postgres.
• Familiarity with, and creative ideas for, AI agent development, LLM frameworks, vector search, or a demonstrated ability to get up to speed fast.
• Experience in open source communities as a contributor, maintainer, or community organizer.
• Confidence presenting and facilitating, both live and on camera.
• An active social presence and following in a relevant developer community.
• Comfort working autonomously in a fast-moving startup.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• B2B SaaS or infrastructure experience.
• Experience with distributed databases, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience running ambassador or champion programs.
• Experience running co-marketing or joint events with technology partners.

Details

• Location: Remote, US.
• Visa sponsorship: Not currently available for new H-1B visas for candidates outside the United States. H-1B transfer or extension candidates, and F-1 (including CPT or OPT) candidates changing to H-1B, are welcome to apply. Candidates with other valid work authorization are also welcome.