Senior DevRel Engineer
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bangalore • India
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About the role
- As a Senior Developer Relations (DevRel) engineer, you will be responsible for building and scaling a strong developer community around our core products.
- Your primary focus will be to engage developers, identify and nurture top talent, and create systems that enable the community to contribute high-quality questions at scale.
- You will operate at the intersection of community, product, and growth, acting as both a champion for developers and a strategic partner to internal teams.
- This role is critical to expanding our ecosystem, increasing our talent pool in the network, and ensuring our products are shaped by real-world developer needs and expertise.
- Build and manage a global network of experts to create coding challenges.
- Build, curate, and manage a community-sourced pipeline of high-quality hands-on questions that include problem description, canonical solutions, hints and guidelines for all our core products.
- Nurture community participation, support developer success, and measure engagement signals to inform strategy.
- Identify, recruit and collaborate with developer champions, contributors, community leaders, and influencers to grow our reach and credibility.
Requirements
- You are a seasoned technical community builder, and developer advocate who blends deep technical credibility with outstanding communication and relationship skills.
- Hands-on experience writing code, building sample apps, or shipping technical projects that demonstrate your ability to teach by example.
- Strong technical foundation with experience in at least one mainstream programming language and technology stack.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. You can explain complex technical problems and solutions in ways that empower developers to succeed.
- Genuine passion for developers, deep empathy for their workflows, and a commitment to helping them succeed without resorting to sales pressure.
- Experience contributing to or building for developer ecosystems.
- Exposure to open-source communities and technical content development.
- Familiarity with AI-driven workflows for scaling product capabilities.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible working hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
programming languagestechnical projectscoding challengessample appstechnical content developmentAI-driven workflowscommunity-sourced pipelinecanonical solutionsproblem descriptiondeveloper ecosystems
Soft Skills
communication skillsrelationship skillsempathycommunity buildingdeveloper advocacyengagement measurementnurturing participationcollaborationstrategic partnershipteaching by example