What you’ll do
Grow the community
Build and run a community growth plan across YugabyteDB, YugabyteDB AMP, and Meko, with goals for membership, active participation, and contribution.
Run and grow the Yugabyte community Slack and Discord, and build an active presence in the channels where developers already gather, including Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and X.
Launch programs that recognize and reward participation, such as a community champions program, contributor spotlights, and regular office hours.
Turn active community members into speakers, authors, sample app contributors, and meetup hosts.
Run hands-on events
Design and deliver workshops that take developers from first install to a working app, including labs on building agent memory with Meko and multi-tenant Postgres applications on YugabyteDB AMP.
Launch and scale Yugabyte-run meetups in key developer hubs, and support community-led chapters with playbooks, content, and swag.
Organize virtual and in-person hackathons, including AI agent hackathons built on Meko and YugabyteDB.
Represent Yugabyte at developer conferences such as KubeCon, PGConf.dev, Linux Foundation events, and AI engineering conferences, running demos, workshops, and booth sessions.
Contribute community programming to Yugabyte’s Distributed SQL Summit, such as hands-on labs, community tracks, and DevRel sessions.
Build with partners
Co-host workshops, meetups, and hackathons with cloud, AI framework, and open source ecosystem partners.
Create sample apps, integrations, and tutorials that show YugabyteDB, AMP, and Meko working alongside the agent frameworks, developer tools, and cloud platforms developers already use.
Build relationships with user groups and open source projects in the Postgres, Kubernetes, and AI agent communities.
Create content the community uses
Produce demos, tutorials, sample apps, blogs, livestreams, and webinars, both live and recorded.
Package workshops into reusable kits and starter templates that community leaders and partners can run on their own.
Hold developer-facing content, quickstarts, and getting-started paths to a high bar for clarity and accuracy.
Be the voice of the developer
Collect feedback from community channels, events, and hackathons, and bring it to product and engineering in a form they can act on.
Track and report community health, including growth, engagement, event attendance, and conversion to active usage.
Help shape the DevRel strategy, processes, and tooling, including community platforms and event tech stack.
What you bring
5+ years in developer relations, developer advocacy, or developer community management, including programs you built from the ground up.
A track record of growing an online developer community on Slack, Discord, or a similar platform.
Experience planning and running in-person events such as meetups, workshops, or hackathons.
Hands-on technical skills, including building demos and sample apps and working comfortably with SQL and Postgres.
Familiarity with, and creative ideas for AI agent development, LLM frameworks, vector search, or a demonstrated ability to get up to speed fast.
Experience in open source communities as a contributor, maintainer, or community organizer.
Confidence presenting and facilitating, both live and on camera.
An active social presence and following in a relevant developer community.
Comfort working autonomously in a fast-moving startup. B2B SaaS or infrastructure experience is a plus.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
Experience with distributed databases, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure.
Experience running ambassador or champion programs.
Experience running co-marketing or joint events with technology partners.
Success in year one, in conjunction with our DevRel team
Community membership across Slack and other channels grows to 10X
Dozens of workshops, hackathons, and meetups delivered
At least a dozen hackathons run, focused on AI agents built with Meko.
Ten partner co-hosted events delivered.
A champions program launched with 50+ active members.
We feel strongly about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one way to help achieve that. The cash compensation for this role is market competitive, with a range of $160,000-$215,000, as well as equity (when applicable), and benefits including health plans, retirement plans, and unlimited paid time off (PTO). Some roles also include variable/incentive compensation, or a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. The pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. The actual pay will vary based on factors including experience, qualifications, and skill level.
Regarding visa sponsorship: Due to recent changes in U.S. immigration policy, we’re currently unable to sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates outside the United States. We’re happy to consider candidates who need an H-1B transfer or extension, as well as candidates in the U.S. on F-1 status (including CPT or OPT) who would need to change to H-1B status. Candidates with other types of valid work authorization are also welcome to apply.
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