Grafana Labs

Senior Developer Advocate

Grafana Labs

full-time

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Location: 🇯🇵 Japan

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPrometheus

About the role

  • Creating technical content such as sample apps, blog posts, and presentations for developers and SREs
  • Participating in conferences, user groups, and online forums to promote Grafana and support our community
  • Acting as an advocate and mentor for new users in Japan
  • Building meaningful relationships within open-source ecosystems, especially those related to CNCF, Prometheus, or Kubernetes
  • Providing user feedback to internal teams to help shape product development
  • Supporting education and enablement for users across various experience levels
  • Collaborating closely with engineers and product teams in an R&D-focused environment
  • Reporting directly to the Japan Country Manager and working with a globally distributed team

Requirements

  • Strong technical background, possibly in software development, DevOps, SRE, observability, or system integration
  • Native or fluent Japanese and strong English communication skills
  • Excellent communicator with empathy and patience
  • Confident presenter with experience delivering technical content to diverse audiences
  • Skilled technical writer with a track record of producing developer-facing content
  • Open-source enthusiast who enjoys community engagement
  • Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time
  • Bonus Points For: Experience with observability, telemetry, or APM tools
  • Bonus Points For: Contributions to open-source communities
  • Bonus Points For: Familiarity with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Bonus Points For: Experience building or running developer communities or meetups