Developer Relations Engineer

Coder

2d•$119,000 - $173,000•Remote

About The Position

Coder is an open-source remote development platform trusted by platform engineers at some of the world’s largest enterprises. As a DevRel Engineer, you’ll shape the experience that helps curious users become active practitioners, contributors, and advocates inside their companies, universities, and home labs. You’ll curate our template registry, improve community docs and guides, show up in Discord and GitHub, and demo Coder online and in person. You’ll work across product, engineering, marketing, and our open-source community to make every path into Coder clearer, faster, and more useful. This role is contract-to-hire.

Requirements

A software or platform engineering background. You’ve written code, managed servers, and troubleshot technical systems.
Strong practitioner empathy. You can meet developers, platform engineers, self-hosters, and enterprise users where they are.
Willingness to travel up to 20%
A tinkering mindset. You look for ways to improve, automate, and simplify, then act on them.
PM-like pattern recognition. You can spot recurring signals in community feedback, prioritize what matters, and route insights to the right teams.
Bias for action. When something is broken or missing, you fix it. When ownership is unclear, you clarify it fast.
Experience participating in technical communities, whether as an active contributor, quiet observer, moderator, or maintainer.
Strong technical writing. You can turn a complex process into something a busy platform engineer will actually finish.
Comfort using tools that scale your impact, including LLMs, automation, and scripting, without automating away the human presence that makes a community worth joining.

Nice To Haves

Experience speaking at conferences, running workshops, or building an audience around technical content.
Experience as a community moderator, support engineer, maintainer, or trusted technical presence in an active community.
A recognizable presence in a technical community such as open source, platform engineering, self-hosting, or infrastructure.
Familiarity with Coder or other remote development environment tools, including Gitpod, DevPod, or GitHub Codespaces.
Prior work on a developer-facing open-source project with an active user community.
Exposure to enterprise platform engineering concepts such as SSO, SAML, Vault, Artifactory, and internal developer portals.

Responsibilities

Be a consistent presence in Discord and GitHub by answering questions, unblocking users, and spotting recurring patterns.
Support community contributors by helping useful fixes, templates, and ideas move into the registry, docs, or product and engineering backlog.
Translate community friction into actionable feedback for product, engineering, docs, and marketing.
Track the broader developer pulse across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, and similar channels, then surface relevant signals internally.
Balance self-serve support with direct help so users can move quickly, with or without contacting Coder.
Curate the registry with a community lens: audit coverage gaps, prioritize what platform engineers need, and keep high-use templates maintained.
Create and maintain high-quality first-party templates for key stacks, including Python, Node, Go, Rust, and Java.
Build reference templates across Docker, Kubernetes, Proxmox, AWS, and bare metal.
Make contributing to the registry easier by improving contributor guides, streamlining reviews, and partnering with engineering on registry server improvements.
Review community pull requests quickly and constructively, with clear feedback, reasonable quality bars, and a bias toward getting good work merged.
Maintain CI, linting, and automated testing so the registry stays healthy as the Terraform provider evolves.
Give talks or run workshops at technical events such as KubeCon, Open Source Summit, SCaLE, FOSDEM, and similar conferences.
Build demo environments backed by public GitHub repos so anyone can clone, deploy, and learn from them.
Create hardware demos on physical devices such as Raspberry Pi, Intel NUCs, and home lab servers.
Produce recorded demos that give sales, marketing, onboarding, and community teams clear walkthroughs of important use cases.
Run live product demos at events, meetups, and online, grounded in real user scenarios rather than slides.
Collaborate with marketing on content that extends your reach, including blog posts, social clips, podcast appearances, and launch announcements.
Audit existing docs and guides for gaps, friction, and stale paths, then fix them through rewrites, restructuring, or net-new content.
Own the getting-started experience from install to first productive workspace, with a measurable focus on reducing activation drop-off.
Write deep-dive guides for complex scenarios such as Docker-in-Docker, air-gapped deployments, multi-region setups, GPU workloads, and enterprise IdP integrations.
Partner with PMs and technical writers to make community-facing docs complete, accurate, and actually usable.
Own at least one community program: a repeatable initiative that compounds over time and pulls people deeper into the Coder community.
Create end-to-end tutorials for real workflows, including migrating from local development to Coder, setting up AI coding agents, and running ephemeral PR environments.
Build and maintain a library of reference deployments that show best practices for common deployment targets.
Turn repeated questions into durable resources that help the next user move faster.

Benefits

The interview process should be transparent, consistent, and enjoyable.
We value your time and hope to complete the interview process in two to four weeks, if schedules allow.
Through your interviews, you will meet a mix of individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders.
As an AI company, Coder embraces the use of AI tools, and we want to be transparent about our expectations as you navigate our interview process.
Permitted: Using AI tooling for take-home assessments. Please flag where and to what extent it was used in your take-home. Your submission will not be penalized for using AI as long as it is done honestly.
We use AI tools to help manage our recruitment process efficiently and fairly.
Ashby helps us review inbound applications by surfacing candidates who best match the role requirements we've defined. This tool does not make hiring decisions - it helps our team prioritize which applications to review first.
Granola takes notes during our interview calls so our team can focus on the conversation with you.
All hiring decisions are made by humans.
Our team reviews applications, conducts interviews, and makes final selections.
AI tools assist us but never replace human judgment, and these practices are conducted in compliance with applicable data protection, AI governance, and labor laws.
Your data is not used to train AI models.
In accordance with New York City Local Law 144, an independent bias audit has been conducted on "Automated Employment Decision Tools"; results are available for Ashby.
If you're applying for a role at Coder and have questions about how we use AI in our process, or if you'd like to request information about the data we collect, please contact [email protected].
Coder is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.