Developer Relations Engineer

Coder

DevRel Engineer engaging and supporting users through community interactions and technical documentation for Coder's open-source development platform.

Posted 6/23/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $119,000 - $173,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDockerGoJavaKubernetesNode.jsOpen SourcePythonRustTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Coder is an open-source remote development platform trusted by platform engineers at some of the world’s largest enterprises. As a DevRel Engineer, you’ll shape the experience that helps curious users become active practitioners, contributors, and advocates inside their companies, universities, and home labs.
You’ll curate our template registry, improve community docs and guides, show up in Discord and GitHub, and demo Coder online and in person. You’ll work across product, engineering, marketing, and our open-source community to make every path into Coder clearer, faster, and more useful.
Be a consistent presence in Discord and GitHub by answering questions, unblocking users, and spotting recurring patterns.
Support community contributors by helping useful fixes, templates, and ideas move into the registry, docs, or product and engineering backlog.
Translate community friction into actionable feedback for product, engineering, docs, and marketing.
Track the broader developer pulse across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, and similar channels, then surface relevant signals internally.
Balance self-serve support with direct help so users can move quickly, with or without contacting Coder.
Curate the registry with a community lens: audit coverage gaps, prioritize what platform engineers need, and keep high-use templates maintained.
Create and maintain high-quality first-party templates for key stacks, including Python, Node, Go, Rust, and Java.
Build reference templates across Docker, Kubernetes, Proxmox, AWS, and bare metal.
Make contributing to the registry easier by improving contributor guides, streamlining reviews, and partnering with engineering on registry server improvements.
Review community pull requests quickly and constructively, with clear feedback, reasonable quality bars, and a bias toward getting good work merged.
Maintain CI, linting, and automated testing so the registry stays healthy as the Terraform provider evolves.
Give talks or run workshops at technical events such as KubeCon, Open Source Summit, SCaLE, FOSDEM, and similar conferences.
Build demo environments backed by public GitHub repos so anyone can clone, deploy, and learn from them.
Create hardware demos on physical devices such as Raspberry Pi, Intel NUCs, and home lab servers.
Produce recorded demos that give sales, marketing, onboarding, and community teams clear walkthroughs of important use cases.
Run live product demos at events, meetups, and online, grounded in real user scenarios rather than slides.
Collaborate with marketing on content that extends your reach, including blog posts, social clips, podcast appearances, and launch announcements.
Audit existing docs and guides for gaps, friction, and stale paths, then fix them through rewrites, restructuring, or net-new content.
Own the getting-started experience from install to first productive workspace, with a measurable focus on reducing activation drop-off.
Write deep-dive guides for complex scenarios such as Docker-in-Docker, air-gapped deployments, multi-region setups, GPU workloads, and enterprise IdP integrations.
Partner with PMs and technical writers to make community-facing docs complete, accurate, and actually usable.
Own at least one community program: a repeatable initiative that compounds over time and pulls people deeper into the Coder community.
Create end-to-end tutorials for real workflows, including migrating from local development to Coder, setting up AI coding agents, and running ephemeral PR environments.
Build and maintain a library of reference deployments that show best practices for common deployment targets.
Turn repeated questions into durable resources that help the next user move faster.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A software or platform engineering background. You’ve written code, managed servers, and troubleshot technical systems.
Strong practitioner empathy. You can meet developers, platform engineers, self-hosters, and enterprise users where they are.
Willingness to travel up to 20%
A tinkering mindset. You look for ways to improve, automate, and simplify, then act on them.
PM-like pattern recognition. You can spot recurring signals in community feedback, prioritize what matters, and route insights to the right teams.
Bias for action. When something is broken or missing, you fix it. When ownership is unclear, you clarify it fast.
Experience participating in technical communities, whether as an active contributor, quiet observer, moderator, or maintainer.
Strong technical writing. You can turn a complex process into something a busy platform engineer will actually finish.
Comfort using tools that scale your impact, including LLMs, automation, and scripting, without automating away the human presence that makes a community worth joining.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Please feel free to ask any questions about compensation and levels during your initial interview.
Coder determines compensation based on the level, role, and location you live in.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonNodeGoRustJavaDockerKubernetesTerraformCIautomated testing

Soft Skills

practitioner empathytinkering mindsetpattern recognitionbias for actionstrong technical writing