Senior Developer Relations Engineer – Security Advocate

Trail of Bits

Developer Relations Engineer amplifying Trail of Bits’ cybersecurity research and open-source tools. Building practitioner communities, upstream contributions, technical content, and conference programs.

Posted 8/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates deep, hands-on security experience with a focus on community engagement and open-source contributions. Capable of producing high-quality technical documentation, research publications, and delivering impactful presentations at industry events.

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Deep Hands-On Security ExperiencePublished Research and AdvisoriesCommunity Engagement and CredibilityWriting and Speaking SkillsExperience with Agentic Tooling

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Hard Skills

Shipped SoftwareReading Unfamiliar CodeRunning AnalyzersBuilding with Agentic ToolingCreating Runnable ExamplesTechnical WritingOpen Merged Pull RequestsCommunity Project MaintenanceApplication SecurityBlockchain and Cryptography

Soft Skills

Ability to Make and Defend PrioritiesWillingness to Travel

Tools & Technologies

MCP ServersHarnessesEvals

Industry Keywords

CybersecurityOpen-Source CommunitiesCommunity MeetupsTechnical Office HoursConference TalksResearch GapsEcosystem TrendsPractitioner Advocacy

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Grow existing relationships and build new relationships across security practitioner, researcher, maintainer, and open-source communities
Attend and speak at relevant cybersecurity conferences and meetups
Re-establish and support successful community meetups
Facilitate technical office hours connecting open-source maintainers with Trail of Bits engineers
Help contributions land upstream and maintain relationships after engagements end
Turn research and releases into advisories, co-authored writeups, reusable guidance, workshops, and hands-on sessions
Publish deep dives, tutorials, and technical write-ups under your own name
Identify speaking opportunities and help engineers submit, prepare, and deliver conference talks
Run Trail of Bits work against unfamiliar code and provide direct feedback to research and engineering teams
Create runnable examples and workflow integrations; contribute to skills and plugins
Improve project onboarding, documentation, and first-run experiences
Attract external contributors and encourage repeat contributions
Feed practitioner needs, research gaps, and emerging ecosystem trends back into the firm
Set targets with the manager during the first quarter and review them quarterly
Track ecosystem outcomes such as contributors, upstream fixes, accepted talks, cited writing, and practitioner advocacy
Hand off commercially relevant opportunities and track them with the appropriate teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Shipped software that people use, such as a tool, library, integration, skill, or agent
Ability to read unfamiliar code, run analyzers, and open merged pull requests
Deep, hands-on security experience, typically seven or more years
Published research, CVEs, or advisories count toward security experience
Practical experience building with agentic tooling, including skills, agents, MCP servers, harnesses, and evals
Public body of work including talks, posts, upstream contributions, research, or documentation
Community credibility in security and open-source communities
Writing and speaking skills suitable for a skeptical technical audience
Ability to make and defend priorities under ambiguity
Willingness to travel approximately one quarter of the year
Nice to have: open-source project maintenance or meaningful contributions
Nice to have: depth in application security, blockchain and cryptography, AI/ML security, or low-level systems research
Nice to have: experience running or programming a community venue at meaningful scale
Nice to have: developer documentation contributions that ship alongside code
Nice to have: involvement with open-source foundations, grant programs, or maintainer-facing initiatives

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary complemented by performance-based bonuses
Fully company-paid health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
401(k) plan with a 5% match of base salary
20 days of paid vacation with flexibility for more, adhering to jurisdictional regulations
4 months of parental leave
$10,000 relocation assistance for moving to NYC
$1,000 Working-from-Home stipend
Annual $750 Learning & Development stipend
Company-sponsored all-team celebrations, including travel and accommodation
Philanthropic contribution matching up to $2,000 annually
Remote-first culture with autonomy and trust