Sr. Developer Advocate

HashiCorp, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Developer Advocate to bridge the gap between the developer community and product teams. In this exciting role, you'll empower practitioners by building compelling presentations, engaging with the community, and providing valuable feedback to improve products. You'll have the opportunity to showcase your technical expertise, mentor junior advocates, and contribute to meaningful projects that drive the adoption of cutting-edge tools. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact in a collaborative environment, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in Engineering, DevOps, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools.

Responsibilities

• Build presentations and demos showcasing products.
• Engage developer community through events and feedback.

Skills

Terraform

Communication Skills

Open-source Contributions

Customer Focus

Independent Work

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Packer

Vault

Nomad

Kubernetes

Job description

Location: Based in The Netherlands or the UK (remote)

About the team

At HashiCorp, the Developer Advocacy team acts as a bridge between the developer community and our internal product and engineering teams. Our mission is to empower practitioners by forming meaningful relationships, sharing best practices, and improving the developer experience through feedback and collaboration. We embody HashiCorp’s tao and principles , supporting practitioners in adopting and thriving with our tools while helping internal teams understand the needs of our community.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Build compelling presentations, demos, technical blogs, and sample solutions showcasing HashiCorp products.
• Prototype technical integrations between HashiCorp products and the broader ecosystem.
• Actively engage and support the developer community through events like conferences, meetups, and hackathons.
• Represent practitioner needs internally by providing feedback on bugs, creating feature requests, and documenting product friction and potential features in support of improving product.
• Maintain a strong social media presence and credibility in channels relevant to developers and operators.
• Define, encourage, and drive adoption of HashiCorp tools within the community.
• Engage as a technical spokesperson for HashiCorp as requested.
• Support peers and community members as needed through code reviews, pairing, and collaborative development -modeling a high standard for team practices.
• Communicate project status, issues, and milestones clearly to teams and stakeholders.
• Act as a mentor and resource for junior advocates and engineers, sharing technical knowledge and process guidance.
• Contribute to product vision discussions and suggest improvements for user experience, design, and documentation.

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• Experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code tool..
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience in Engineering, DevOps, or a related technical field.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to engage developers and engineers.
• Hands-on experience writing code and contributing to or managing open-source projects.
• Familiarity with infrastructure management concepts and operations lifecycle.
• Strong customer focus, ownership, initiative, and drive.
• Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment within established practices.
• Eagerness to travel for conferences, community events, and meetups as needed.

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Experience with other HashiCorp and/or Ecosystem tools (Packer, Vault, Boundary, Nomad, Consul, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Proven experience building and delivering large technical projects independently.
• Recognized speaker at technical conferences or events.
• Broad understanding of user personas and the developer/operator ecosystem.
• Familiarity with building maintainable systems and applying repeatable workflows for troubleshooting and improvements.
• Proactive in suggesting product, UX, or documentation improvements that enhance the full user experience (“whole product” thinking).
• Ability to reflect on work processes and influence broader team growth and improvement.
• Experience developing leadership skills and mentoring other team members.
• Experience in a scale industry vertical (Finance, Gaming, Government, or other)

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Life at HashiCorp

HashiCorp, an IBM company is driven by our people and our principles which have been the foundation of everything we do since the company was founded in 2012. Join us on our journey as we work to support the world's most innovative companies as they transition to cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure through simple yet powerful workflows and automation.

At HashiCorp, an IBM Company, we build the infrastructure that enables innovation. Our suite of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products are the underpinnings of the largest enterprises in the world, who rely on our solutions to provision, secure, connect, and run their critical applications to deliver crucial services, communications tools, and entertainment platforms to the world. We're building a once-in-a-generation infrastructure company with a unique approach rather than focusing on specific technologies, and we build products and solutions that support real-world workflows spanning the multiple cloud environments that nearly every organization worldwide is using today.

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