Senior Developer Advocate

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 220,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Vacation & holidays

Free lunch

One Medical Membership

Citi Bike memberships

Wellness stipend

Parental leave

Fertility & abortion travel benefits

Learning budget

Job summary

Viam seeks a Senior Developer Advocate to help developers discover and build with the platform. This role is remote with travel to events, reporting to the SVP of Product & Education and expanding the West Coast presence.

You will create tutorials and demos, present at conferences, build robotics projects, and nurture developer communities while feeding insights back to Product and Engineering.

Qualifications

• Track record of creating high-quality technical content for developers.
• Experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and maintaining production software.
• Hands-on hardware, IoT, embedded systems experience helpful.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly without losing depth.
• Strong understanding of how developers discover and adopt new technologies.
• Comfort speaking publicly and engaging with developer communities.

Responsibilities

• Represent Viam at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and other developer events through speaking, teaching, and building alongside developers.
• Build creative robotics projects that show developers what’s possible with Viam.
• Turn what you build and learn into technical content, including tutorials, videos, sample code, workshops, demos, and talks.
• Grow engagement across Viam’s Discord and other developer communities.
• Experiment with emerging technologies and developer tools, and identify opportunities for Viam to build or teach.
• Build, assemble, test, and troubleshoot the software and hardware behind demos and projects.
• Bring feedback from developers back to Product and Engineering.

Skills

Technical content creation

Public speaking

Developer engagement

Tools

Python

Go

C++

TypeScript

Job description

About Viam

Founded by Eliot Horowitz, co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB, Viam is a novel robotics engineering platform that lets you configure, control, and manage robots intuitively and quickly. We’re inspiring a generation of engineers to solve complicated automation problems with our uniquely powerful suite of software tools.
We’re a ~100-person company headquartered in New York City.

About the Role

Remote, with travel to events

We’re looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to help more developers discover Viam, understand what’s possible with the platform, and start building with it. Our Developer Advocacy team is currently based in New York, and we’re expanding our presence on the West Coast. You’ll report to the SVP of Product & Education.

In this role, you’ll build creative software and hardware projects, turn those projects into content and experiences others can learn from and try themselves, and represent Viam across developer communities through events, workshops, and online engagement.

Projects can span a wide range of ideas—from a robotic arm that sorts objects or a computer-vision-powered machine to a smart device or an experiment with emerging physical AI technology.

What you’ll do:

• Represent Viam at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and other developer events through speaking, teaching, and building alongside developers.

• Build creative robotics projects that show developers what’s possible with Viam.

• Turn what you build and learn into technical content, including tutorials, videos, sample code, workshops, demos, and talks.

• Grow engagement across Viam’s Discord and other developer communities, while building your own credibility and presence in the technical communities that matter to our audience.

• Experiment with emerging technologies and developer tools, and identify timely opportunities for Viam to build, teach, or participate.

• Build, assemble, test, and troubleshoot the software and hardware behind demos and projects.

• Bring feedback from developers back to Product and Engineering, and use engagement and platform activation to understand what’s working and where to focus next.

What you bring:

• A track record of creating high-quality technical content for developers, such as tutorials, videos, sample projects, workshops, or talks.

• Experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and maintaining production software used by real users. Experience with Python, Go, C++, or TypeScript is especially relevant.

• Strong technical judgment and the ability to independently scope, build, debug, and iterate on software projects with limited direction.

• Hands-on experience with hardware, IoT, embedded systems, electronics, maker projects, or similar physical systems. Professional robotics experience is not required.

• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly without losing technical depth.

• A strong understanding of how developers discover, evaluate, and adopt new technologies.

• Comfort speaking publicly, teaching, appearing on video, and engaging directly with developer communities.

• Ability to move quickly, experiment often, and decide both what is worth building and how to build it.

• Comfort traveling and participating in occasional evening or weekend events.

The salary for this role is between $220,000 - 250,000 /year.

Full-time Benefits

Viam’s base salary range for this role is posted above. In addition to cash compensation, Viam offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more.

• 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans, commuter benefits

• 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances

• Free lunch every day that you’re in the office

• One Medical Membership

• Citi Bike memberships

• Monthly wellness stipend to be used for a variety of fitness-related items like gym memberships, fitness classes, fitness equipment, and more

• Paid parental leave

• Reproductive Health Benefits, including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits

• Yearly Learning and Development Budget for your own personal learning goals

Values:

• Vision Driven

• Collaborate Openly

• Act Decisively

• Succeed Through Diversity

• Hold Ourselves Accountable

• Lead with Curiosity