What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevRel position at cognee?
Cognee is building the memory engine data plane for AI agents to plan, reason, and act. Our open-source Python SDK is in production at 70 companies, hit GitHub Trending, and runs 550,000 times per month. We've won early customers (including top-10 Pharma) and recently raised a large Seed.
We are looking for a Senior Developer Relations Engineer to be the technical face of Cognee in the AI developer ecosystem. You'll work at the intersection of engineering, product, and community, helping developers build production-grade AI agents with long-term memory.
This is a senior, high-impact role based in San Francisco, with direct influence on product direction, developer adoption, and ecosystem growth.
What You Will Build
We are looking for a Senior Developer Relations Engineer to be the technical face of Cognee in the AI developer ecosystem. You'll work at the intersection of engineering, product, and community, helping developers build production-grade AI agents with long-term memory.
This is a senior, high-impact role based in San Francisco, with direct influence on product direction, developer adoption, and ecosystem growth.
What You Will Build
- Developer Evangelism & Advocacy Represent Cognee in the AI developer community through talks, workshops, podcasts, and conferences (SF, US, and global).
- Technical Content at Depth Create high-quality technical content: tutorials, reference implementations, blog posts, videos, and example agents using the Cognee Python SDK.
- Open-Source Leadership Actively contribute to Cognee's open-source repos: improving docs, examples, APIs, and developer experience based on real-world feedback.
- Community Building Grow and engage our developer community across GitHub, Discord, Twitter/X, and events. Turn power users into advocates.
- Product Feedback Loop Be the voice of developers internally: translate developer pain points into actionable product and API improvements.
- Integrations & Demos Build compelling demos and integrations with LLM frameworks, vector databases, and agent stacks to showcase what's possible with Cognee.
- Enterprise Developer Enablement Support advanced customers and partners with architectural guidance, best practices, and reference deployments.
- Experience with AI agent frameworks, vector databases, or graph systems
- Public speaking at conferences or meetups
- Existing audience or strong presence in the developer community
- Prior work at a developer-tool, infra, or open-source-first company
- Senior DevRel Experience Proven experience as a Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Developer Advocate, or similar role in a developer-first company.
- Strong Engineering Background Hands-on experience with Python and modern backend systems. You should be comfortable reading, writing, and reviewing production-quality code.
- AI / ML Ecosystem Fluency Deep familiarity with LLMs, AI agents, vector databases, and modern AI tooling. You've built or shipped real AI systems.
- Outstanding Communication Skills Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly—whether in writing, live demos, or on stage.
- Open-Source Mindset Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects and engaging with developer communities.
- Product Sense Strong intuition for developer experience, APIs, and what makes a tool delightful vs painful to use.
- Location Based in San Francisco (or willing to relocate). This is a high-collaboration, ecosystem-driven role.
- Up to $300,000 USD total compensation (base)
- Equity package
- Meaningful equity in a fast-growing AI infrastructure company
- Work directly with the founding team
- High autonomy and real ownership
- Top-tier developer conferences and event budget
- Shape the future of memory for AI agents
Salary : $200,000 - $300,000