Developer Relations

Datastrato; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Datastrato, the original creator of Apache Gravitino, is building the open metadata platform for the AI era and is looking for a Developer Relations professional to join the team.

You will grow our developer community, work with engineering on technical content, and represent Datastrato at events and customer engagements while shaping the voice of developers inside the product team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in developer relations or similar roles with external exposure.
• Proven success growing developer communities and organizing technical events.
• Contributions to a prominent data/AI project (e.g. Spark, Flink, Kafka).
• Strong technical writing and collaboration with engineers.
• Credible with experienced data/AI infrastructure engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build and grow Datastrato’s developer community across open source, events, and online channels.
• Partner with engineering to produce high-quality technical content (blogs, deep dives, demos).
• Represent Datastrato at technical events, conferences, and customer engagements.
• Design and run impactful technical events for data and AI practitioners.
• Act as the voice of developers back into product and engineering.

Skills

Developer relations

Community building

Technical writing

External exposure

Open source contributions

Job description

• Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Remote OK with up to 30% travel, primarily to the Bay Area)
• Compensation: $120,000–$200,000 base + equity + benefits
• Experience: 3+ years

About Datastrato

Datastrato, the original creator of Apache Gravitino, is building the open metadata platform for the AI era, increasingly critical as enterprises endeavor to deploy AI and AI agents at scale. Led by prominent open source leaders with deep expertise in data infra/large-scale distributed systems and Silicon Valley veterans, in just over 2 years, we have built a compelling product, cultivated a vibrant open source community (Apple, Pinterest, Roku, Tencent, Uber, etc), and signed enterprises including 2 of the top 20 US Internet companies as paying customers.

We’re defining the next generation of data infrastructure for AI and are well-positioned to emerge as a category leader. Join us.

Core Responsibilities

• Build and grow Datastrato’s developer community across open source, events, and online channels
• Partner with engineering to produce high-quality technical content (blogs, deep dives, demos)
• Represent Datastrato at technical events, conferences, and customer engagements
• Design and run impactful technical events for data and AI practitioners
• Act as the voice of developers back into product and engineering

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 3+ years in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, or technical roles with heavy external exposure
• Demonstrated success growing developer communities and organizing technical events
• Meaningful contributions to a prominent data or AI project (e.g. Spark, Flink, Kafka)
• Strong technical writing skills and ability to collaborate with engineers
• Credibility with experienced data/AI infrastructure engineers

Strong Plus

• Background as a software, data, platform or AI engineer
• Experience at an early-stage data or AI infrastructure, or developer-first startup