Developer Advocate & Platform Evangelist

Kong; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong is seeking a hands-on technologist to bridge engineering and the developer community. You’ll work on Volcano and build real apps using coding agents, documenting decisions and best practices.

You will craft templates, produce demos and video content, host hackathons, and collaborate with tool makers to expand our ecosystem. You’ll be customer zero, surfacing issues early for the product team.

Qualifications

• Publicly shipped projects in the last year.
• Experience with zero-to-one initiatives (started or joined early).
• Strong communication and ability to explain technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own the Volcano Cookbook: recipes with code, decisions, and gotchas.
• Build templates and deployable examples.
• Create video content and demos.
• Host hackathons and evaluate sponsorships.
• Collaborate with partner tools on joint content.
• Engage with developers on Discord, X, and GitHub and feed insights back.
• Develop tooling to enable a small team to publish more without quality loss.
• Act as customer zero, surfacing issues for engineers to fix.

Skills

Public project shipping

Technical storytelling

Coding agents fluency

Clear communication

Engineering credibility

Tools

Claude Code

Discord

GitHub

Job description

Kong is seeking a hands-on technologist to bridge engineering and the developer community. You’ll work on Volcano and build real apps using coding agents, documenting decisions and best practices.

You will craft templates, produce demos and video content, host hackathons, and collaborate with tool makers to expand our ecosystem. You’ll be customer zero, surfacing issues early for the product team.