Remote Developer Advocate - Community Growth Lead

YugabyteDB; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Retirement plans

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Yugabyte is seeking a Developer Advocate to energize the YugabyteDB and Meko communities for a rapid-growth distributed Postgres platform. You’ll own programs, workshops, meetups, and online spaces, turning developers into active contributors.

Work closely with product, engineering, marketing, and the DevRel team to collect feedback, drive roadmap, and represent Yugabyte at conferences. This remote US role blends technical demos with community building in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in developer relations, developer advocacy, or developer community management, including programs you built from the ground up.
• A track record of growing an online developer community on Slack, Discord, or similar platform.
• Experience planning and running in-person events such as meetups, workshops, or hackathons.
• Hands-on technical skills, including building demos and sample apps and working with SQL and Postgres.
• Familiarity with AI agent development, LLM frameworks, vector search, or a demonstrated ability to get up to speed fast.
• Experience in open source communities as a contributor, maintainer, or community organizer.
• Confidence presenting and facilitating, both live and on camera.
• An active social presence and following in a relevant developer community.
• Comfort working autonomously in a fast-moving startup. B2B SaaS or infrastructure experience is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Grow the community: build a growth plan across YugabyteDB, AMP, and Meko and foster active participation.
• Run and grow the Yugabyte community Slack and Discord, and build an active presence in key channels.
• Launch programs that recognize participation and turn members into speakers, authors, and meetup hosts.
• Design and deliver workshops taking developers from first install to a working app.
• Organize Yugabyte-run meetups and support community-led chapters with playbooks and swag.
• Organize virtual and in-person hackathons, including AI agent hackathons built on Meko and YugabyteDB.
• Represent Yugabyte at conferences, running demos, workshops, and booth sessions.
• Contribute community programming to Yugabyte’s Distributed SQL Summit.

Skills

Developer relations

Community building

Event planning

SQL and PostgreSQL

AI agent development

Open source

Public speaking

Social media presence

Autonomy in startup

Education

Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Slack

Discord

Job description

Yugabyte is seeking a Developer Advocate to energize the YugabyteDB and Meko communities for a rapid-growth distributed Postgres platform. You’ll own programs, workshops, meetups, and online spaces, turning developers into active contributors.

Work closely with product, engineering, marketing, and the DevRel team to collect feedback, drive roadmap, and represent Yugabyte at conferences. This remote US role blends technical demos with community building in a fast-moving startup.