Developer Advocate - Volcano

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

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?

About the Role:

Volcano (volcano.dev) is a cloud for apps built with coding agents. You tell Claude Code, Cursor or Codex what you want, and it sets up the database, auth, functions, storage, realtime and deploys on Volcano without a trip through a dashboard. Most platforms were designed around a person in a console and added agent support later. We started from the agent.

We're a small team and launched publicly in September 2026. Volcano is incubated by Kong and runs as its own company with its own brand.

This role sits between engineering and the developers we build for. You'll build on Volcano constantly, show people what it can do, and bring back what you learn so the product gets better.

What You'll Do:

• Own the Volcano Cookbook: recipes that build real apps on Volcano with tools developers already use, written up with the code, the decisions and the gotchas.
• Build templates and examples people can deploy in one step.
• Make video, including YouTube, streams and short demos.
• Run Volcano hackathons, show up at others, and decide which sponsorships are worth doing.
• Work with the companies whose tools appear in our recipes on joint content.
• Spend time where developers ask questions, in Discord, on X and on GitHub, and bring what you hear back to the team.
• Build the tooling and workflows that let a small team publish more without the quality slipping.
• Be customer zero. You'll hit rough edges before users do, and engineers should be able to act on your reports.

Who You'll Bring:

• You've built things in public in the last year and can show us what you shipped and how you told people about it.
• You've done 0-to-1 work: started a company, joined one early, or launched something from nothing.
• You're technical and fluent with coding agents. You don't need to be a database or infrastructure expert, but you can build a working app with Claude Code or similar, debug it when it breaks, and explain what happened.
• You write well. You use AI in your own workflow, and you can tell when output reads like slop.
• You like explaining things, whether to a room, a camera or a thread of skeptical replies.
• Engineers trust you on technical accuracy.

Bonus Points:

• An existing developer audience
• Hackathon organizing experience
• Experience with developer platforms like Vercel, Supabase, Neon or Cloudflare.

About Kong:

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any clo