About the role
As a Developer Advocate at Sourcegraph, you will be a champion for how developers understand and navigate complex codebases using our platform. You'll be connecting with the developer community and sharing the value of our AI Code Assistant and Code Search platform through written, video, and live engagements. You'll be part of a small but impactful team, representing Sourcegraph and its commitment to improving the developer experience. You'll have the opportunity to help developers at the most successful and sophisticated companies in the world (our customers) implement and scale code AI capabilities. We're looking for someone passionate about driving adoption and empowering engineers through creative story telling and genuine community building.
As a Developer Advocate, you will spend 25% of your time engaging with Developers at events in-person and 75% of your time creating content and recording videos.
Job responsibilities
Attend and host 2-5 meet-ups and events in San Francisco monthly
Represent our user community within Sourcegraph
Build apps with Sourcegraph in public
Build integrations on top of Sourcegraph (such as teaching Sourcegraph how to use and gather information from other dev tools, including logging, perf, etc., tools)
Livestream and record demos of what you build, for Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, etc.
Be an incredibly helpful and inspirational member of our dev community yourself and help grow it
Write awesome technical blog posts
Promote Sourcegraph on social media
Help connect our user community growth to our product-led growth engine
Overall, help define what dev advocacy means at Sourcegraph
Skills and experience
Your skill-set:
You are intrinsically motivated by Sourcegraph’s mission.
Experience as a software engineer or prolific coding
TypeScript, JavaScript, and/or Go skills Able to communicate technical concepts in a simple and engaging way
Experience creating high-quality technical writing and videos
Experience working in a high-agency environment that requires ownership
Bonus Points:
You’ve established a strong following on social media platforms
Level
This job is an IC2-IC3. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.
Compensation
We pay you an above-average salary because we want to hire the best people who are fully focused on helping Sourcegraph succeed, not worried about paying bills. As an open and transparent company that values competitive compensation, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph teammate. To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources, along with your location zone, and target the high-end of the range to ensure we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world.
The target compensation for this role is $130,300 - $159,000 USD (depending on level & location).
About the company
Our mission at Sourcegraph is to make it so that everyone can code, not just ~0.1% of the population. We are transforming how the world’s most important companies build software by industrializing development with AI.