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Senior Developer Advocate
Software Engineer
• Senior
• On-site
• Full-time
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San Francisco Bay Area, USA
As Senior Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, you own the company's Bay Area developer presence, attending meetups, demo nights, and hackathons several times a week to build genuine relationships with AI and platform engineers. You bring practitioner signal back to LaunchDarkly and demonstrate, through credible demos, how runtime control changes what developers can ship.
Responsibilities
- ▹Attend Bay Area developer events several times a week (meetups, demo nights, hackathons, conferences), building real relationships over months
- ▹Listen more than you talk: bring back structured signal on what practitioners are building and where they're stuck
- ▹Build and show small, credible demos on AgentControl and the LaunchDarkly platform
- ▹Write event recaps and practitioner-grade content for the community
- ▹Over time, organize gatherings around problems developers actually have
- ▹Route relationships, signal, and opportunities to the owners who can act on them
Requirements
- ▹Experience in developer advocacy, community, solutions engineering, customer success, or another customer-facing technical role
- ▹Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, able to attend events in person several times a week, including evenings
- ▹Technically credible: able to build and demo real things and hold a deep technical conversation without a script
- ▹Already active in, or genuinely drawn to, the AI developer scene
- ▹A strong written voice that makes people who weren't in the room feel like they missed something
Nice to have
- ▹An existing network in the Bay Area developer community
- ▹Experience organizing meetups or developer events
- ▹Familiarity with feature management, experimentation, observability, or agent frameworks
Soft skills
Strong written and verbal communicationCredibility and active listening within the technical communityIndependent judgment and willingness to redesign the plan based on evidenceRelationship and network building
What we offer
- ▹Target pay (Level 4): Zone 1 (SF/Bay Area, NYC, Boston, Seattle) $152,000-$210,000; Zone 2 $137,000-$189,000; Zone 3 $129,000-$178,000
- ▹Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- ▹Health, vision, and dental insurance
- ▹Mental health benefits
About the company
LaunchDarkly's platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong, improving release velocity and stability and maximizing the business impact of every feature.
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