Developer Advocate (Remote)

Percona•Lisbon, FL

2d•Remote

About The Position

Percona is seeking a Developer Advocate to bridge the gap between their powerful open-source database solutions and the developers and DBAs who use them. This role involves making Percona's offerings easier to understand, utilize, and discuss through various forms of content, code, and community engagement. The ideal candidate may come from a Developer Advocacy background or a senior technical role such as engineering, DBA, consulting, or other customer-facing positions. The core requirement is the ability to communicate effectively with technical audiences as a peer, backed by credible production experience.

Requirements

Several years of experience in a hands-on technical role (engineering, DBA, SRE, solutions architecture, developer advocacy, or similar).
Production experience with databases or with developers who use them.
Strong writing skills to create clear and understandable technical content.
Comfortable with public speaking or a strong desire to develop this skill.
Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Rust, sufficient for writing demos, building sample applications, and reading source code.
Understanding of how open-source communities function and the difference between participation and marketing.
Willingness to travel approximately 10-50%.

Nice To Haves

Existing contributions to open-source projects, particularly in the database, observability, or Kubernetes ecosystems.
Experience with AI/ML workloads on databases, such as vector search, RAG, or embeddings at scale.
A recognized presence in developer communities (e.g., a blog with regular readers, a YouTube channel, conference talks, an active GitHub profile).
Experience in building or managing developer programs, community events, or contributor onboarding.

Responsibilities

Create technical content, including tutorials, deep-dive blog posts, reference guides, video walkthroughs, and demos that solve specific problems.
Present at public speaking engagements such as conference talks, webinars, meetups, podcasts, and livestreams.
Engage with the open-source communities of projects Percona utilizes, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Valkey, and Kubernetes, by contributing, answering questions, reporting bugs, and representing Percona.
Actively participate in the Percona community across platforms like the Percona Forum, Discord, GitHub, social media, and at Percona events, welcoming and recognizing contributors.
Become knowledgeable about Percona's open-source portfolio, including Percona Server for MySQL, Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona Server for PostgreSQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Percona XtraBackup, Percona Backup for MongoDB, Percona Monitoring and Management, Percona Operators, and Percona Everest.
Facilitate the feedback loop by relaying field insights on pain points, documentation gaps, user experience issues, and feature requests to Product and Engineering teams.
Collaborate with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Support teams to ensure technical messaging is accurate and valuable.