Developer Advocate & AI Apps Evangelist

Kong Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong Inc. is seeking a proactive technical storyteller to bridge engineering and developers using Volcano and coding agents. You’ll ship public-facing examples, write recipes, and help others build real apps with Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.

You’ll own content templates, run hackathons, create video demos, and work with partner tools to showcase the platform’s potential while gathering feedback to improve the product.

Qualifications

• Showcased work shipped publicly in the last year.
• 0-to-1 startup experience (started a company or launched something from nothing).
• Fluent with coding agents and able to build working apps with Claude Code or similar.
• Strong writing and clear technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Own Volcano Cookbook: recipes for building real apps with code, decisions, and gotchas.
• Build templates and examples deployable in one step.
• Create video content, YouTube demos, streams and short recordings.
• Run hackathons, participate in external events, evaluate sponsorships.
• Collaborate with partner tool teams on joint content.
• Engage with developers on Discord, X, and GitHub; relay feedback to the team.
• Develop tooling to empower a small team to publish more without quality loss.
• Serve as customer zero, report rough edges, and coordinate fixes.

Skills

Public shipping

Startup experience

Coding agents familiarity

Technical writing

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Kong Inc. is seeking a proactive technical storyteller to bridge engineering and developers using Volcano and coding agents. You’ll ship public-facing examples, write recipes, and help others build real apps with Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.

You’ll own content templates, run hackathons, create video demos, and work with partner tools to showcase the platform’s potential while gathering feedback to improve the product.