Senior Developer Advocate
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
About Unleash
Unleash is a feature management platform helping development teams experiment faster with new features with less risk and more efficiency. Our mantra is create with freedom release with confidence.
Feature management has emerged as a core component of Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and Experimentation Platforms allowing developers to test new features incrementally roll back with precision and run experiments that drive real product decisions. Unleash is the largest open source solution for feature management on GitHub and serves some of the worlds most security-conscious enterprises. From financial institutions and fintechs to large retailers and government bodies.
Unleash has solid funding from investors across the US UK and Norway and is growing.
Were a remote-first company across 10 countries with a Nordic culture based on trust transparency and autonomy.
About the role
Were looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join our small but growing DevRel team. Youll work closely with the Head of DevRel and own a significant portion of our technical content strategy and community execution from blog posts and tutorials to live demos workshops and conference talks.
This is a high-autonomy role. You wont be handed a backlog to execute. Youll help shape what gets built and why co-owning parts of the DevRel strategy. Were a small team and we move fast so the ability to self-direct prioritize ruthlessly and deliver with speed and precision matters a lot.
Our primary audience is the technical practitioner: developers DevOps engineers platform engineers and software architects working in and around enterprise software. Youll need to be able to speak their language with credibility. That means being hands-on technically sharp and genuinely curious about the problems they face.
Responsibilities
Own and execute technical content across formats: written tutorials blog posts code examples video walkthroughs and live demos
Speak at developer conferences meetups and community events
Design and run developer workshops (in-person and virtual)
Contribute to the Unleash OSS ecosystem: code samples integrations documentation improvements and SDK examples
Engage with the developer community across channels and represent Unleash with authenticity
Collaborate with Customer Success and Go-to-Market teams to identify technical content gaps and opportunities
Stay sharp on the AI/LLM tooling landscape and help translate Unleashs value into that context for developers building AI-powered applications
About you
You have 5 years of hands-on experience spanning real software engineering and Developer Relations (youve done both not just talked about both)
Youve shipped production code and can build working demos integrations and code samples from scratch
You have genuine experience in Developer Relations: youve spoken at conferences produced technical content and know what it takes to build credibility in a developer community
Youre comfortable with CI/CD cloud-native technologies and modern DevOps/platform engineering practices
You have hands-on experience building with AI/LLM tools and can speak fluently about integrating AI into real applications
You can speak credibly to a technical enterprise audience of developers architects and platform teams in large organizations without losing the startup instinct for speed and pragmatism
You thrive with autonomy. You dont need a lot of hand-holding and you default to action over process
A growing LinkedIn or YouTube presence is a strong plus. Were not looking for influencer-scale followings but an established voice in the developer community signals the right mindset
Familiarity with OpenFeature or the feature management space is a bonus not a requirement
Skills & Experience
Experience level: Senior Individual Contributor 10 years across software engineering and Developer Relations
Core skills: Technical content creation public speaking live demos developer education
Technical skills: TypeScript CI/CD pipelines cloud-native technologies (e.g. Kubernetes OpenFeature) AI/LLM tooling and integrations
Additional skills: OSS contribution SDK/integration development video production community building
Logistics
Base salary: $230-250K Equity
Employment type: Permanent
Reports to: Head of DevRel
Location: NYC preferred other major East Coast cities considered
Remote working: Fully remote
Working timezones: EST with some overlapping with CET
Visa sponsorship: Not available
Company Benefits
Competitive salary Stock options Benefits Package Annual company offsite Flexible schedule Fully remote.
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