Senior Developer Advocate - Volcano

Kong; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong is seeking a hands-on technologist to bridge engineering and the developer community. You’ll work on Volcano and build real apps using coding agents, documenting decisions and best practices.

You will craft templates, produce demos and video content, host hackathons, and collaborate with tool makers to expand our ecosystem. You’ll be customer zero, surfacing issues early for the product team.

Qualifications

• Publicly shipped projects in the last year.
• Experience with zero-to-one initiatives (started or joined early).
• Strong communication and ability to explain technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own the Volcano Cookbook: recipes with code, decisions, and gotchas.
• Build templates and deployable examples.
• Create video content and demos.
• Host hackathons and evaluate sponsorships.
• Collaborate with partner tools on joint content.
• Engage with developers on Discord, X, and GitHub and feed insights back.
• Develop tooling to enable a small team to publish more without quality loss.
• Act as customer zero, surfacing issues for engineers to fix.

Skills

Public project shipping

Technical storytelling

Coding agents fluency

Clear communication

Engineering credibility

Tools

Claude Code

Discord

GitHub

Job description

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About the RoleVolcano () is a cloud for apps built with coding agents. You tell Claude Code, Cursor or Codex what you want, and it sets up the database, auth, functions, storage, realtime and deploys on Volcano without a trip through a dashboard. Most platforms were designed around a person in a console and added agent support later. We started from the agent.

We're a small team and launched publicly in September 2026. Volcano is incubated by the company and runs as its own company with its own brand.

This role sits between engineering and the developers we build for. You'll build on Volcano constantly, show people what it can do, and bring back what you learn so the product gets better.

What you'll do

• Own the Volcano Cookbook: recipes that build real apps on Volcano with tools developers already use, written up with the code, the decisions and the gotchas.
• Build templates and examples people can deploy in one step.
• Make video, including YouTube, streams and short demos.
• Run Volcano hackathons, show up at others, and decide which sponsorships are worth doing.
• Work with the companies whose tools appear in our recipes on joint content.
• Spend time where developers ask questions, in Discord, on X and on GitHub, and bring what you hear back to the team.
• Build the tooling and workflows that let a small team publish more without the quality slipping.
• Be customer zero. You'll hit rough edges before users do, and engineers should be able to act on your reports.

Who you'll bring

• You've built things in public in the last year and can show us what you shipped and how you told people about it.
• You've done 0-to-1 work: started a company, joined one early, or launched something from nothing.
• You're technical and fluent with coding agents. You don't need to be a database or infrastructure expert, but you can build a working app with Claude Code or similar, debug it when it breaks, and explain what happened.
• You write well. You use AI in your own workflow, and you can tell when output reads like slop.
• You like explaining things, whether to a room, a camera or a thread of skeptical replies.
• Engineers trust you on technical accuracy.

Bonus Points

• An existing developer audience
• Hackathon organizing experience
• Experience with developer platforms like Vercel, Supabase, Neon or Cloudflare.

About the company

About the company:the company Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, the company’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit .

Compensation Range: $165K - $185K