Technical Content Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Producing technical content - blog posts, tutorials, video, tweet threads, demo apps - whatever format best lands the idea
• ▹Owning content strategy - deciding what to write about, which channels to be on, what success looks like, and how often to ship
• ▹Building with the product - writing real TypeScript on top of Trigger.dev - sample apps, integrations, reference implementations
• ▹Supporting founder content - producing posts, threads, and longer pieces that go out under the founders' names
• ▹Measuring and iterating - setting up conversion tracking, running A/B tests on content, adjusting based on results
• ▹Reading the room on the audience - understanding the technical, informal sensibility of the dev tools and AI agent crowd
• ▹Shaping how the company tells its story

Requirements

• ▹Strong TypeScript skills - shipping real applications, not just snippets; the stack is Node/TypeScript
• ▹A track record of external technical content that has performed - public blog posts, tweet threads, YouTube videos, talks
• ▹Fluency with the current AI tooling landscape - building with AI agents and the surrounding stack
• ▹Strategic instincts alongside production chops - not just writing the blog post but shaping what to write and measure
• ▹Strong written communication and high EQ - working independently while keeping the team in the loop

Nice to have

• ▹An existing audience on Twitter/X, YouTube, or a personal blog in the developer or AI space
• ▹Previously worked in-house at a dev tools, dev infra, or AI infra company in a content, DevRel, or growth-engineering capacity
• ▹Experience producing content that has gone viral or driven measurable signups for a product
• ▹A proven track record of contributing to open source projects
• ▹Comfort on camera (video, YouTube, screencasts)
• ▹Previously been a founder, indie hacker, or built and grown your own product

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Generous, transparent compensation and equity, benchmarked via PostHog's salary calculator
• ▹Async working
• ▹Home office equipment support
• ▹Generous vacation: 25 days vacation excluding national holidays, plus sick leave and generous parental leave
• ▹Annual training budget for books, an Audible subscription, or online courses
• ▹Pension and 401k contributions

About the company

Trigger.dev is the platform for running reliable AI agents and workflows. Developers use it to build, deploy, and scale production systems with built-in tools for orchestration, scheduling, monitoring, and debugging. Their Cloud product is a managed service that auto-scales from zero to millions of executions, serving thousands of teams building AI apps and agents, handling hundreds of millions of executions per month.