Developer Advocate

Job Description

Elastic is seeking a Developer Advocate to join its team. The successful candidate will be responsible for fostering the Elastic Community in North America, with a focus on Austin, TX. They will create technical content, speak at events, and answer technical questions to help users succeed with Elastic’s stack, solutions, and cloud offerings.

Responsibilities:

• Foster the Elastic Community in North America with a focus on Austin, TX.
• Create technical content around the Elastic Stack for talks, blog posts, videos, and demos with a focus on observability.
• Speak at virtual and in-person events like conferences, meetups, and lunch & learn sessions in Texas 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.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional experience in DevOps, with expertise in monitoring and observability, infrastructure automation, or cloud deployments.
• Active participation in the Austin tech community.
• Empathy for the community to help them solve their challenges.
• Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.
• Experience working self-driven and self-organizing.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

The role offers:

• Competitive pay
• Health coverage
• Flexible locations and schedules
• Generous vacation days
• Company-matched 401k
• Stock program