Senior Developer Advocate

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What Is The Role:

Developers and community matter. Our users and contributors have helped ensure that the Elastic Stack (including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is more than just code — they are free and open projects that people love to use and love to talk about.

Are you the kind of person who is keen on sharing technology with the world and supporting our global user-base? Your activities as a Developer Advocate at Elastic include:

• Presenting at in-person and virtual conferences or meetups.
• Answering questions from Developers on Discuss (our forum), Slack and other forums.
• Building and sharing content, including in-depth blog posts, example demos, tutorials and videos on elastic.co or our YouTube channel.
• Contributing code on GitHub both to Elastic and external repositories.

The DevRel team's mission is to educate and help our users succeed by being (or the willingness to become) an expert in Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack within the Search and AI ecosystem.

If you read this far and think: "that's me!" — You probably won't need to read any further, and we should have a conversation. But if you doubt the type of experience we expect you to have, the following should help clarify.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Foster the Elastic Community in North America (NA), with a local focus on New York (NY).
• Create technical content around the Elastic Stack for talks, blog posts, videos, and demos.
• Speak at virtual and in-person events like conferences, meetups, and lunch & learn sessions in the New York area and throughout NA.
• Answer technical questions on Discuss, Slack, developer forums, social media, and at events.
• Contribute to Elastic repositories or external ones to integrate better with Elastic technologies.
• Help users be successful with Elastic’s stack, solutions, and cloud offerings.

What You Bring:

• Strong technical background and experience in an engineering role.
• Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology — including speaking, writing, and demoing.
• Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues, provide internal feedback to make Elastic’s products better, and fix pain points where possible.
• Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.
• Experience working self-driven and self-organizing.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with and passion for the Elastic Stack.
• Proficiency in additional language(s) — speaking or programming (like Golang, Python, Java, or Rust).
• Production experience with technologies that complement Elastic’s technologies — from Generative AI to Kubernetes.
• Involvement in past Elastic Community events as speaker or organizer.
• Experience with Open Source software or commercial Open Source companies.

 

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.  

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not l