Developer Advocate

Greptime; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

401(k)

PTO

Home office stipend

Conference budget

Job summary

Greptime, an open-source observability database in Rust, seeks a DevRel to be the public face of the project to developers globally.

You'll write technical content, ship demos, give talks, answer questions on GitHub and Slack, and relay feedback to engineering.

This early-hire role grows with you; after 12–18 months you may shape the program and team direction while staying hands-on with the community.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years in DevRel, technical writing, or an engineering role with a public component.
• Portfolio of talks, writing, or OSS contributions you can show to us.
• Genuine interest in data infrastructure—observability, time-series, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Write technical content engineers actually finish—deep dives, migrations, honest comparisons.
• Build demos and reference architectures with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and ecosystem.
• Speak at conferences and meetups; we cover travel and CFP help.
• Engage daily on GitHub, Slack, and social; surface patterns back to the team.

Skills

Public speaking

Technical writing

OSS maintainership

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

GitHub

Slack

Job description

Greptime builds an open-source observability database in Rust — one engine for metrics, logs, and traces ( github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb ). We're a venture-backed early-stage team distributed across the US and China. It runs in production at companies with serious time-series workloads — observability, IoT, connected vehicles.

This DevRel role exists because our global developer community is outgrowing what engineering can cover directly — we need someone whose full-time job is meeting developers where they are.

Remote — Americas or Europe. Full-time. Part-time or contract also OK.

The role

You'll be the public face of Greptime to the global developer community. The role is wide open — you won't be slotting into someone else's playbook, you'll be writing it.

Hands-on work: write code, ship demos, give talks, answer hard questions on GitHub and Slack, and bring what you hear back to engineering.

This is one of our first dedicated DevRel hires, calibrated for someone 1–3 years in. The scope grows as you grow — do this well, and in 12–18 months you're a senior DevRel here, with input on how the team and program look next.

What you'll do

• Write technical content engineers actually finish — deep dives, migration walkthroughs from Prometheus / Loki / Elasticsearch, honest comparisons
• Build demos and reference architectures with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and the rest of the ecosystem
• Speak at conferences and meetups (we cover travel and help with CFPs)
• Show up daily in GitHub, Slack, and social — answer questions, surface patterns back to the team

What we want

• One or two years doing something adjacent — DevRel, technical writing, an engineering role with a public component, OSS maintainership
• Public talks we can watch and writing we can read. One thing you're proud of is enough.
• Genuine interest in data infrastructure — observability, time-series, distributed systems. You don't need to be an expert yet.
• You run your own work. We won't be checking in on what you did this week.

We don't care about your school, your current title, or your exact years of experience. We do care about evidence — show us what you've shipped, written, or spoken about, and let the work speak.

Compensation

US: $100,000–$150,000 base + equity, calibrated for an early-to-mid-level hire. Outside the US: adjusted to local market. As you grow into a senior role, the package grows with you.

Equity is meaningful at this stage — we're early, and a real part of the upside lives there.

Health, 401(k) (US), PTO, home office stipend, real conference budget.

Visa sponsorship: case by case.

Greptime is an equal opportunity employer.