Developer Advocate

Job Responsibilities

Foster the Elastic Community in North America with a focus on San Francisco, CA.
Create technical content around the Elastic Stack for talks, blog posts, videos, and demos.
Speak at virtual and in-person events like conferences, meetups, and lunch & learn sessions in your location and throughout North America.
Answer technical questions on Discuss, Slack, social media, and at events.
Contribute to Elastic repositories or external ones to integrate better with Elastic technologies.
Help users be successful with Elastic’s stack, solutions, and cloud offerings.

2 + years of professional experience and technical background in Python, JavaScript, Data Science or Machine Learning.
Active in the San Francisco tech community.
Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues.
Comfortable working with a highly distributed teams.
Experience working self-driven and self-organizing.
Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

Bonus Points

Familiarity with and passion for the Elastic Stack.
Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology — including speaking, writing, and demoing.
Production experience with technologies that complement Elastic’s technologies — from Generative AI to Kubernetes.
Involvement in past Elastic Community events as speaker or organizer.
Experience with open source software or commercial open source companies.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave