Developer Advocate
Company: Speakeasy
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 24, 2024
Job Description:
Mission
Speakeasy is building the next generation of API
infrastructure.
We help API producers offer a Stripe-like developer experience for
all their APIs, by creating and maintaining best-in-class developer
surfaces like idiomatic, feature-rich SDKs, Terraform providers and
docs. Great developer experience accelerates API adoption, reduces
the burden on support and engineering, and paves the way for
emergent use cases.
At the same time we're building towards a vision of providing a
complete suite of tooling to handle all of a company's API needs.
We're leveraging platform engineering, code gen and LLMs to provide
a platform that unburdens teams who are creating, maintaining and
constantly evolving their APIs.
About the Role
As a Developer Advocate at Speakeasy, you will be contributing to
our developer outreach. You'll help educate IC developers, team
leads and CTOs on the importance of building an effective and
developer friendly API platform.
This role is multi-faceted. A successful Developer Advocate will
own initiatives such as:
- Writing high-quality content that is interesting and useful to
a technical audience (not just meeting keyword criteria), such as
how to build a TypeScript SDK from scratch
- Creating example code repos to supplement your writing, such as
a Typescript SDK template
- Collaborating with other team members on editing and improving
each other's work.
- Distributing your own content where, when, and how you think it
should be distributed.
- Running experiments to test out new content channels & formats:
videos, podcasts, social, etc.
- Working with customers and partners to co-create content
- Engaging frequently with developers in communities and forums,
championing Speakeasy and providing market feedback to our team
About you
- A great writer who loves storytelling
- A solid content portfolio. It can be for a company, or your own
personal site. Years of experience are irrelevant.
- Comfortable with end-to-end ownership: we're a small team, we
own content pieces from conception to distribution. We believe in
context over control, and trust each other to own outcomes and
drive projects to completion
- Highly agile and thrives under ambiguity: there are no set
structures or processes, and we experiment rapidly. To succeed,
you'll need to be comfortable forming a point of view and driving
an agenda. When things don't work, you'll embrace shifting
priorities
- A keen understanding of our target personas (typically eng and
product leaders responsible for APIs), what they care about and
what will resonate most with them. You need to be able to switch
from the 35,000 foot macro view to the micro "hands-on" tutorial -
sometimes in the same presentation, webinar or tutorial
- Technically proficient: you'll be interacting with developers
day-in and day-out. To be effective, you'll need to get very
hands-on and in the weeds on details ranging from OpenAPI
specifications, to programming idioms, to Speakeasy's product.
- (Optional bonus!) You have been a developer before. If you
still love shipping code - dreaming up exciting content and then
shipping it - that's a huge plus! What should you know about us?
- We're a remote team split between PST and GMT. This has its
advantages and disadvantages. We follow async processes pretty well
but it's not perfect. You'll help us get there
- We're a small team of 12. We are collaborative and supportive
of each other, but believe in high ownership and autonomy
- We are ambitious, passionate about what we do, and seek to be
exceptional. If you are looking for a place to clock in and out or
to simply punch a ticket, we are likely not a good fit for you
- We serve tens of thousands of users, with customers from
startups to large enterprises Benefits and perks
- Unlimited PTO. We'll bug you if you don't take enough time off.
This is a marathon, not a sprint.
- Team off-sites and a travel budget to go to conferences and in
person collaborations
- Best in class healthcare (medical / dental / vision at 100% for
you) and 401K in the USA; private healthcare and pension plan for
UK.
- WFH budget: choose your own perfect setup!
Let's chat!
Email us at jobs@speakeasyapi.dev
Keywords: Speakeasy, Berkeley , Developer Advocate, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California
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