Developer Relations Engineer San Francisco, United States · Full Time

Better Auth; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication framework, is looking for the first Developer Relations hire to build the function from the ground up in San Francisco. You will shape how developers learn and adopt our platform.

You’ll blend engineering depth with public presence, translating feedback into polished examples, docs, workshops, videos, and community content, while collaborating closely with the engineering team to improve the product.

Responsibilities

• Own the developer relations program from the ground up.
• Understand and debug developer feedback, and help fix issues with the product.
• Guide developers across docs, examples, workshops, videos, community channels, and public content.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to improve the product and developers' experience.

Job description

About Better Auth

Better Auth is the most comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript. We're the most upvoted YC Launch in history and are used by thousands of developers shipping everything from startup projects to enterprise products.

We’re a small team building foundational infrastructure that other developers depend on, so the bar is high: every decision we make affects security, correctness, and developer experience at scale. We’re also building an enterprise layer on top of the open-source framework for teams that need more operational, organizational, and compliance-oriented capabilities.

We’re now extending that work into agent auth: secure identity, approval, delegation, and capability grants for AI agents operating across runtimes, services, and organizations. That makes developer education especially important: we’re helping define new identity primitives that developers will need to understand, trust, and adopt.

The Role

You’ll be the first Developer Relations hire at Better Auth and help build the function from the ground up.

This role blends engineering depth, public presence, and community leadership. You won’t just relay developer feedback — you’ll understand it, debug it, and often help fix it yourself. You’ll guide developers across docs, examples, workshops, videos, community channels, and public content.

You’ll help define how developers experience Better Auth: how they learn it, how they adopt it, how they contribute to it, and how the broader ecosystem understands our work. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can teach clearly, build polished examples, engage publicly, and work closely with the engineering team to improve the product.

Why You Should Join

You’ll join Better Auth at an early stage with real