Developer Advocate

About BytewaxHere at Bytewax, we’re creating the next generation stream processing framework. We are driven to bring a developer-friendly experience to stream processing.Bytewax is backed by leading early-stage VCs as well as angels from Heroku, GitHub, Redis, Shopify, and Microsoft. We operate 100% remotely with folks on 3 different continents. The team has experience building data and infrastructure tooling at Simple, Yelp, Chef, GitHub, and Heroku.

The Developer Advocate RoleWe are looking for candidates who love collaboration with the open source community, and share our vision for accessible technology. Developer advocacy at Bytewax is focused on four areas. Developer Education, Developer Success, Community, and Product.Education: One of the main priorities of developer advocacy at Bytewax is to educate users on how to build on top of streaming data.Success: Another important priority for a developer advocate at Bytewax is Developer Success. We are eager to provide support to developers as they go from trialing our product to building a full-blown commercially scaled product.Community: We believe that great software is only as great as its community and we are aiming to build a thriving community that supports its users.Product: Bytewax developer advocates are Bytewax users and you will be a core part of bringing new ideas and helping define the product.We’d love to hear from you if:You thrive in a startup environment. You like the feeling of getting to ideate and ship your ideas in a fast-paced environment. You are also comfortable with some amount of ambiguity and like the challenge of coming up with ideas on how to increase developer satisfaction.You are interested in enabling the next generation of stream processing.You love creating powerful user experiences for other developers, whether just getting started or having years of experience. You ensure that it is easy to comprehend for different audiences by making it simple and succinct.You enjoy mentoring and collaboration, sharing what you know, and balancing the perspectives of the team.You have experience with Python and streaming systems (Kafka, Redpanda etc.).You have experience working in an advocacy or evangelist role. Having an established reputation in technical communities is a plus.You have experience generating developer-focused content (blog posts, video tutorials, etc.) while working both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.You like attending conferences and get excited about the idea of driving a new demo or speaking about data-related topics.You are a solid technical writer and would be comfortable creating and maintaining technical documentation aimed at external users, such as user manuals, references, FAQs, and release notes.You are able to communicate with developers via multiple channels (Reddit, Slack, Hacker news, etc.).

Bytewax is a multinational, remote-first company. We encourage you to work where you can be at your best. However, this role is scoped to the United States only and requires valid authorization to work in the United States.If you're interested in joining us, but your experience is different from what we’ve outlined above, we still encourage you to apply! We're building a diverse team whose skills, experiences, and backgrounds complement one another, and we value and encourage having multiple perspectives.

Things you should knowWe are a startup, but we want great people to work here without worrying about the basics.✅ Medical insurance, dental, and vision✅ Paid parental leave✅ Unlimited vacation (we will require you to take vacation if you don't 🙂)✅ Competitive salary + employee friendly stock options

Key Skills

• Python
• Kafka