Bay Area Developer Advocate & AI Community Builder

LaunchDarkly Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area to own our local presence. You will attend Bay Area developer events—meetups, demo nights, hackathons—building real relationships with AI and platform engineers over months.

This role requires showing credibility, demos, and practical content around AgentControl and our platform, while bringing back structured signal to the team. In-person participation several times a week is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in developer advocacy, community, solutions engineering, customer success, or another customer-facing technical role.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the ability to attend events in person several times a week, including evenings.
• Technically credible: you can build and demo real things and hold a deep technical conversation without a script.
• Already active in, or genuinely drawn to, the AI developer scene.
• A strong written voice: your recaps make people who weren't in the room feel like they missed something.

Responsibilities

• Show up consistently: attend Bay Area developer events several times a week, building real relationships with AI and platform engineers over months.
• Listen more than you talk: bring back structured signal on practitioner needs and perspectives on agents, releases, and runtime control.
• Demonstrate, don't pitch: build and demo credible tools around AgentControl and the LaunchDarkly platform; handle tough technical questions.
• Add to the conversation: write event recaps and practitioner-grade content.
• Earn the right to convene: organize gatherings around developers' problems over time.

Skills

Developer advocacy

Community building

Solutions engineering

Customer-facing technical role

Written communication

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area to own our local presence. You will attend Bay Area developer events—meetups, demo nights, hackathons—building real relationships with AI and platform engineers over months.

This role requires showing credibility, demos, and practical content around AgentControl and our platform, while bringing back structured signal to the team. In-person participation several times a week is expected.