Open Source and Developer Relations Engineer

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with match

Medical, dental, and vision

Remote-friendly flexibility

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. is seeking a contributor-focused engineer to maintain examples, answer questions, and push fixes upstream for open source projects.

You will help turn developer friction into product improvements and collaborate with engineering and research on benchmarks and quality. In your first 90 days you will release a useful example, demonstrate credible engineering work, and show clear written communication while helping others succeed.

Qualifications

• Credible engineering work of your own that people can look at.
• Clear communication in writing, which is most of open source.
• Evidence you helped others succeed: maintained projects, thoughtful reviews, teaching, or documentation
• You engage respectfully with contributors, including ones who are wrong

Responsibilities

• Maintain examples, answer technical questions and contribute fixes upstream.
• Turn real developer friction into product changes.
• Work with engineering and research on publishable benchmarks, issue triage and extension quality.
• Teach an unfamiliar engineer how to debug an extension failure and identify platform improvements.

Skills

Engineering work

Clear writing

Mentoring others

Respectful collaboration

Job description

You earn a community by helping people build useful things, connecting technical contribution, documentation, and collaboration that treats contributors well. We support open models and open source as a matter of principle, so this role is about being a good participant, not about extraction.

The work:

Maintain examples, answer technical questions and contribute fixes upstream. Turn real developer friction into product changes. Work with engineering and research on publishable benchmarks, issue triage and extension quality, with clear boundaries around private user data.

What good looks like:

In your first 90 days, release a useful example, resolve a recurring integration problem and establish a sustainable contributor workflow.

Evidence we look for:

Bring credible engineering work and clear communication. Evidence may include maintained projects, thoughtful reviews, teaching or documentation that helped others succeed.

Required:

• Credible engineering work of your own that people can look at
• Clear communication in writing, which is most of open source
• Evidence you helped others succeed: maintained projects, thoughtful reviews, teaching, or documentation
• You engage respectfully with contributors, including ones who are wrong

Nice to have:

• You have maintained a project with outside contributors
• Experience with open governance
• Conference or workshop organising

The exercise:

Teach an unfamiliar engineer how to debug an extension failure, then identify what the platform should improve.

How we work:

We work together in the office, five days a week, and you can be based at any of our garages: Kirkland Garage (Kirkland, WA); UAE Garage (Dubai, Dubai). We hire across the United States, India and the UAE. We are remote-friendly around family: if you need to work from home some days to look after the people you love, we arrange that with you one person at a time, and we encourage people to use it rather than tough it out.

Pay:

We publish what we pay. Indicative ranges by market and level are on our compensation page, and they are realistic going market rates rather than headline numbers. Wherever we hire we pay at least the local market rate, and for full-time roles our floor is a living wage, never the statutory minimum. Compensation is reviewed every year and on promotion.

Equity:

Every full-time teammate gets stock options. Four-year vesting with a one-year cliff, sized to role, level and impact, and confirmed in writing at offer. High performers earn refresh grants.

Bonus and commission:

An annual performance bonus tied to clear company and personal goals, indicatively 10 to 20 percent of base for non-sales roles. Customer-facing roles carry on-target earnings, typically a 50/50 split of base and variable, with uncapped commission and accelerators above quota.

Health and peace of mind:

Medical, dental and vision for you and your family, plus life and disability cover. We have chosen the highest plan tier available to us rather than the cheapest one that clears the bar, because the point of this is that you never have to think about it. The specific plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.

401(k) with company matching:

A 401(k) with a company match, so the years you spend here compound into something that is yours whatever happens next. The match formula is confirmed in your offer letter.

AI tokens:

A budget of AI tokens of your own, because a company that says you should own your AI cannot be the company that rations it. Use them on the work and on whatever you are curious about.

Gym, and the everyday things:

A gym membership, and a corporate benefits programme with its own app, where you redeem real discounts with a long list of retailers on the ordinary purchases of a life.

Family:

We are remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time, and we would rather you took it than toughed it out.

Referrals:

Refer someone we hire full-time who stays a year and you get $1,000 plus $10,000 in referral stock-based equity, on top of your own package.