Developer Advocate responsible for content delivery and developer experience improvement on PayPal platforms. Focused on SDKs, APIs, and Docs for the developer community.
About the role
- Senior Developer Advocate at Instaclustr focusing on AI and open source technologies. Bridge between AI community and product organization creating compelling technical narratives.
Responsibilities
- Build and nurture relationships with AI developers, ML engineers, and architects working on agentic AI applications and data-intensive AI workloads
- Serve as the voice of AI developers within Instaclustr, providing product management with continuous feedback on developer needs, pain points, and emerging use cases
- Engage with open source AI communities around key technologies including Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra, Cadence, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and ClickHouse at industry conferences, meetups, webinars, and online communities
- Develop high-quality technical content (tutorials, demos, code samples, blog posts, videos) that demonstrates how to build AI applications using Instaclustr's managed platform
- Create reference architectures and solution patterns for common agentic AI use cases (RAG pipelines, vector search, real-time AI inference, AI data pipelines)
- Produce compelling demonstrations that showcase the integration of Instaclustr portfolio with popular AI tools and frameworks
- Work closely with the Sr. Product Manager – AI Market Segment to ensure developer advocacy efforts align with segment strategy and business goals
- Validate product hypotheses through hands-on prototyping and developer feedback, supporting the PM's customer discovery and experimentation efforts
- Contribute to the "working backwards" product development process by articulating developer perspectives and technical requirements
- Serve as a subject matter expert on AI infrastructure requirements, including data pipelines, vector databases, streaming platforms, and operational data stores for AI applications
- Stay current with emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns, providing insights to product and engineering teams
- Troubleshoot technical challenges faced by developers using Instaclustr for AI workloads and escalate product gaps or opportunities to product management
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, API design, and integration patterns
Requirements
- Production experience with AI technologies and frameworks (eg LangChain/LangGraph), vector databases and embeddings
- Hands-on experience building agentic AI applications, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, or LLM-powered applications
- Understanding and experience with AI data pipelines and MLOps practices
- Knowledge of streaming architectures and event-driven systems for AI applications
- Strong experience with open source data platforms such as Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Cadence, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, or similar technologies
- Excellent written, verbal, and video communication skills with a portfolio of technical content (blogs, talks, tutorials, open source contributions)
- Active participation in open source communities with visible contributions (GitHub profile, conference talks, blog posts)
- Background in developer relations, developer advocacy, technical evangelism, solution architecture, or software engineering
- Ability to work cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and go-to-market teams with limited supervision
- Willingness to travel 20-30% of the time for conferences, conventions, customer meetings, and partner engagements
- Bachelor's degree in a technical/engineering field; or additional required experience in place of education requirement
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Retirement or Pension Plans
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Various Leave options
- Performance-Based Incentives
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Restricted stocks (RSU’s)
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