Senior Developer Advocate

KX; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private healthcare package

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

KX is seeking a Developer Advocate in New York to help developers adopt the KX platform by delivering hands-on experiences, tutorials, and reference architectures for capital markets workflows. You will translate complex tech into practical guidance while partnering with Product and Engineering to improve developer experience.

You will build reusable assets, run blogs and webinars, and grow the developer community across forums, GitHub, and events, leveraging your strong Python, q/kdb+, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Developer Relations, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or a similar technical customer-facing role.
• Strong proficiency with q/kdb+ and experience building applications that process high-performance time-series data.
• Strong Python skills (PyKX experience is a plus).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of capital markets workflows including market data, electronic trading, quantitative research, market structure, or trading technology.
• Experience creating technical content including demos, tutorials, sample applications, blogs, videos, presentations, or developer documentation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to developers with varying levels of experience.

Responsibilities

• Create technical content and hands-on experiences that help developers successfully build with KX across real capital markets workflows including demos, tutorials, sample applications, blueprints, and reference architectures.
• Develop reusable technical assets that enable customers, partners, presales teams, and the developer community to adopt KX effectively and showcase best practices.
• Engage and grow the KX developer community through blogs, webinars, workshops, conferences, GitHub, community forums, and social channels.

Skills

Developer Relations

q/kdb+

Python

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Time-series data

Capital markets

Technical content

Communication

Tools

Kafka

GitHub

Job description

KX software powers the time-aware data-driven decisions that enable fast-moving companies to outpace competitors, realizing the full potential of their AI investments. The KX platform delivers transformational value by addressing data challenges related to completeness, timeliness and efficiency, ensuring companies understand change over time and can achieve faster, more accurate insights at any scale, cost-effectively.

KX is essential to the operations of the world's top investment banks, aerospace and defence, high-tech manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, automotive and fleet telematics organizations. The company has established offices and a robust customer base across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Overview Of the Role

As a Developer Advocate, your mission is to help developers successfully adopt KX by creating technical content and experiences that demonstrate how our platform solves real capital markets problems. You'll translate complex technology into practical guidance while helping Product and Engineering continuously improve developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Create technical content and hands-on experiences that help developers successfully build with KX across real capital markets workflows including demos, tutorials, sample applications, blueprints, and reference architectures.
• Develop reusable technical assets that enable customers, partners, presales teams, and the developer community to adopt KX effectively and showcase best practices.
• Engage and grow the KX developer community through blogs, webinars, workshops, conferences, GitHub, community forums, and social channels.

Skills

• 5+ years in Developer Relations, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or a similar technical customer-facing role.
• Strong proficiency with q/kdb+ and experience building applications that process high-performance time-series data.
• Strong Python skills (PyKX experience is a plus).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of capital markets workflows including market data, electronic trading, quantitative research, market structure, or trading technology.
• Experience creating technical content including demos, tutorials, sample applications, blogs, videos, presentations, or developer documentation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to developers with varying levels of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building developer communities through conferences, meetups, workshops, or open-source contributions.
• Experience with AI developer workflows, MCP, RAG, vector search, GPU acceleration, or modern AI development frameworks.
• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka.

Location & Workplace Type

Hybrid working model based out of our New York Office.

Why Choose KX

Data Driven: We lead with instinct and follow fact.

Naturally Curious: We lean in, listen and learn fast.

All In: We take ownership, take on challenges and give it our all.

• Individually tailored training and skills development
• Private healthcare package and Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package