What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Developer Advocate position at Airbyte?
Opportunity
As a Senior Developer Advocate Engineer, you’ll establish strong relationships with data engineers and engineers around the world in a scalable way, by crafting great resources to help developers build with Airbyte, including open-source demos, code samples, documentation, how-to guides, live demos, and hackathons. You’ll foster developer communities, championing their interests and translating their feedback into actionable product insights.
If you’re passionate about connecting with developers and the data ecosystem, trying out new technologies, and sharing what you’ve learned with the world, we’d love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Partner closely with product and engineering: Support our feature launches with technical content to drive eyeballs to them, and strengthen Airbyte’s infrastructure reliability perception.
- Lead the technical content theme on “database replication”: Create deep technical content and sample projects addressing databases and their replications. Position Airbyte as the biggest thought leader on that topic.
- Support our meetup program in San Francisco: Collaborate closely with partners to bring interesting topics / speakers to our meetup group “Data Bytes”. We will host 2 practitioner-focused meetups per month on data engineering and AI engineering.
- Community and Partners Engagement: Engage with developer communities (including our own) and partners to collaborate on content, events, code contribution, talks, anything to drive adoption of Airbyte.
- Sample Project Development: Develop and maintain sample projects and ready-to-deploy full-fledged open-source quickstarts to showcase the potential and versatility of Airbyte, and help new users get started.
- Voice of the Community: Act as a liaison between the community and the Airbyte product team, ensuring that user feedback, concerns, and suggestions are heard, understood, and acted upon.
What You'll Need
- 3 years of experience in software engineering
- Passionate about developer relationships and advocacy.
- You have a working knowledge of databases, data platforms and developer tools like dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow, or other data tools
- You have experience of writing code sample projects, demos, or tutorials.
- You have good knowledge of databases and database replication
- Experience of working within cross-functional teams (product management, marketing, product engineering, support, customer success, etc).
- Scrappy & has a mindset that done is better than perfect. Many of the community projects are early and will have shifts in direction.
- Creative, empathetic, communicative, and clever. Entrepreneurial.
- Confident and comfortable presenting to different types of audiences, large and small.
- Adept at communicating technically complicated topics simply and elegantly.
- Maintain a strong and credible presence in online platforms and social media channels relevant to developers.
- Able to work long hours and weekends to support short-term projects (when needed).
- Data enthusiast - able to provide examples of how you use data to measure success.
- Able to multitask and meet time-sensitive goals.
- Belief in our values
Location
- San Francisco. Hybrid, twice per week.
We provide
- Relocation - should you be applying to a San Francisco based role, Airbyte will assist with U.S. relocation to make this a seamless transition and compensate you well.
- Unlimited Paid Time Off - we need you at your best at all times. Our expected minimum time off of 25 PTO days per year lets you schedule your work around your life.
- Co-working space - most of our team enjoys the WFH life but if you prefer to work from a co-working space, we will cover the full monthly cost.
- Parental leave (for both parents) - we offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents so you have time to adjust to the new life (and work) schedule introduced by your new bundle of joy.
- Sponsored Travel - We sponsor annual company-wide retreats, team offsites, and Travel With Purpose in between to allow you to collaborate with your team in person on a regular basis.
- Open book policy - we will pay for books you purchase for your professional and career development.
- Continuous learning/training policy - we sponsor you for the conferences and training programs you feel would add to your development in the company.
- Competitive benefits package for US-based employees, including:
- Blue Shield or Kaiser Medical Insurance
- Airbyte covers 100% for both employees and dependents
- Dental (including child & adult ortho) & Vision Insurance
- Airbyte covers 100% for both employees and dependents
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Airbyte covers 100% for employees
- Short-term Disability Insurance
- Airbyte covers 100% for employees
- Long-term Disability Insurance
- Airbyte covers 100% for employees
- Healthcare insurance stipend for those outside the US whose countries do not provide it for free.
- Mental Health Support for all team members provided via Spill.
- 401k for US-based employees.
- FSA (flexible spending account)
- Work Visas We currently sponsor H1B Transfers, TN Visas, and Green Cards. All other Visa requests will be discussed on a case by case basis to determine if we can sponsor.
Salary for this job- $173,000- $197,000 a generous equity package, and benefits listed above for US Market. For countries outside of the US we offer benefits and localized salaries based on your region or area.
Airbyte is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Airbyte is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.
Salary : $173,000 - $197,000