Senior Developer Advocate

Elastic • New York, NY

83d • $113,100 - $178,900 • Remote

About The Position

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic's complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. Developers and community matter. Our users and contributors have helped ensure that the Elastic Stack (including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is more than just code — they are free and open projects that people love to use and love to talk about. Are you the kind of person who is keen on sharing technology with the world and supporting our global user-base?

Requirements

• Strong technical background and experience in an engineering role.
• Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology — including speaking, writing, and demoing.
• Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues, provide internal feedback to make Elastic's products better, and fix pain points where possible.
• Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.
• Experience working self-driven and self-organizing.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with and passion for the Elastic Stack.
• Proficiency in additional language(s) — speaking or programming (like Golang, Python, Java, or Rust).
• Production experience with technologies that complement Elastic's technologies — from Generative AI to Kubernetes.
• Involvement in past Elastic Community events as speaker or organizer.
• Experience with Open Source software or commercial Open Source companies.

Responsibilities

• Foster the Elastic Community in North America (NA), with a local focus on New York (NY).
• Create technical content around the Elastic Stack for talks, blog posts, videos, and demos.
• Speak at virtual and in-person events like conferences, meetups, and lunch & learn sessions in the New York area and throughout NA.
• Answer technical questions on Discuss, Slack, developer forums, social media, and at events.
• Contribute to Elastic repositories or external ones to integrate better with Elastic technologies.
• Help users be successful with Elastic's stack, solutions, and cloud offerings.

Benefits

• 401(k) / Retirement Plan
• Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave
• Health coverage & vision insurance
• Flexible locations & schedules
• Work from home policy
• Generous vacation time & paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services