Staff Developer Advocate
About The Position
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. As a Developer Advocate, you will inspire and equip developers to create, deploy and operate software with DigitalOcean. This role will report directly to the VP of Developer Relations and work closely with our Growth, Product and Engineering organizations.
Requirements
- Significant experience in at least one major programming language such as Python, JavaScript/Type, Java or C#, along with a breadth of experience with several other programming ecosystems
- Demonstrated previous experience in creating publicly-available high quality, customer-facing technical content such as videos, written content, research publications
- Self-starter attitude, empathetic, and motivated to serve developers and make the colleagues around you better
Responsibilities
- Create code and content that educates developers so they can be successful with DigitalOcean. The code and content will drive our business through authentic engagement with developers. It will also serve as a key input into constantly improving our developer experience. The content can be in the form of written tutorials, videos, workshops, social media posts and any other mediums that developers care about.
- Provide insightful and meaningful feedback to Product teams based on your usage of the products. The best way to improve developer experience is to show rather than tell, so a significant portion of this work will involve building with our platform to identify rough edges and weaknesses that need to be improved.
- Guide and mentor the Developer Relations individuals and teams based on your experience for how to best serve developers.
- Decide how to scale our developer relations efforts. As we see success with our execution in videos, events, workshops, and other tactics, we’ll need to figure out the best way to invest in efficiently and effectively scaling up those executions to authentically serve even more developers.
Benefits
- We innovate with purpose.
- We prioritize career development.
- We care about your well-being.
- We reward our employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
