Senior Developer Advocate Engineer

Airbyte is the open-source standard for EL(T). We enable data teams to replicate data from applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, and other destinations. We believe only an open-source approach can solve the problem of data integration, as it enables us to cover the long tail of integrations while enabling teams to adapt pre-built connectors to their needs.   So far, we've built over 350 connectors and have had 35,000+ companies replicating data with us. We've raised $181M from some of the world's top investors (Benchmark, Accel, Altimeter, Coatue, Y Combinator, etc.) and believe in product-led growth, where we build something awesome and let our product bring the users, rather than an outbound sales engine with cold calls.   Airbyte is remote friendly, with most of the team still based in Silicon Valley. We’re fully transparent as a company. Our company handbook, core values, methodology, strategy and roadmap are open to all.   If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don’t meet all requirements.  

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 example