Developer Advocate - Catalyst

Who We Are:

We believe that open-source software, open standards and APIs are the greatest transformational tools for organizations in the modern software development era.

Our mission at Diagrid is to provide developers with APIs and tools that help them focus on their code and not on infrastructure. As online digital services need to handle more load and run on multiple clouds or on-premises environments, programming to higher level abstractions delivers consistent, secure and reliable code that is easily portable and helps organizations de-risk their projects.

Diagrid is founded by the creators of the Dapr and KEDA open-source projects, and who led the user experience, design and development of hyper-scale infrastructure cloud services, serverless platforms and open-source projects at Microsoft.

We are backed by top VC firms and supported with industry leading investors and advisors including Joe Beda (Kubernetes Co-Founder, former Co-Founder / CTO at Heptio) Matt Klein (Creator of Envoy, Lyft), Mark Russinovich (CTO, Microsoft Azure), William Morgan (Creator of Linkerd, CEO Buoyant), Seth Vargo (Senior Staff Engineer, Google), Adam Gross (Former CEO, Heroku), Sri Viswanath (Former CTO, Atlassian), Adam Frankl (Dev Marketing Expert, Neo4J & JFrog), and Roopak Venkatakrishnan (Head of platforms, Bolt).

The Role:

As a Developer Advocate within Diagrid you have a key role where you act as the bridge between end users (developers), Product, and Marketing. You’ll drive and own content creation for Diagrid Catalyst, a developer productivity tool that offers unified APIs for messaging, data and workflow powered by open-source Dapr. You’ll contribute to the overall Developer Relations strategy, and play a significant role in improving the developer experience of the Diagrid products.

Your day-to-day consists of creating content (blog posts, videos), engaging with the developer community online, discussing new product features with Product and Marketing, and helping realize a content plan. From time to time, you’ll deliver sessions at developer conferences, both online and in-person, where you engage with the community, build relations and gather product feedback.

Responsibilities:

• Increase Diagrid Catalyst awareness & adoption by creating high quality technical content to educate and inspire developers how to build distributed systems with Diagrid Catalyst. This includes:

  • Writing blog posts

  • Recording & editing videos

  • Creating code samples in various languages (incl JavaScript, Python, C#, Java)

  • Distributing content on relevant platforms

• Increase Diagrid Catalyst awareness by:

  • Identifying and initiating collaborations/partnerships with other community members and organizations.

  • Presenting at conferences and meetups online or in person (5-10% travel).

• Engage with the developer community, both online and in-person, to build relationships and support them in their developer journey.

• Provide product feedback to engineering.

• Support other Diagrid teams such as Marketing and Product by giving webinars, write/review docs and code samples.

Qualifications:

• Experience with creating compelling technical and educational content such as how-to guides, tutorials, and demos (3+ years).

• Proficient in multiple programming languages such as JavaScript and Python (3+ years).

• Experience with using a large public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or GCP (2+ years).

• Experience with using an edge compute platform such as Cloudflare, Vercel, or Netlify (1+ years).

• Experience with Git-based version control systems.

• Experience with writing and consuming web APIs.

• Strong networking and relationship building abilities.

• Comfortable working independently and asynchronously.

• Basic understanding of developer relations metrics.

• Bonus: active member of the JavaScript or Python community.

• Bonus: experience with event-driven architectures or distributed systems.

Additional Benefits:

• Work remotely

• Flexible time off

• Choice of hardware

• Equity

• Medical, dental & vision coverage for you and your dependents

• $1000 for home office setup

• Monthly remote work stipend

• Collaborative and supportive team

• Chance to collaborate with industry-leading figures 

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Our Tech Stack:

At Diagrid, we believe in using open-source tools and protocols to get the job done, while respecting the age old "pick the right tool for the right job" saying. As such, we expect our tech stack to be dynamic and evolving in nature while retaining our open-source strategy.

We use:

• Golang

• Node.js

• Typescript

• React

• Redux

• MySQL 8.x with InnoDB

• Cortex

• Kubernetes

• Docker

• Envoy

• Multiple cloud platforms, mainly GCP

Diagrid, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.