Developer Advocate - Neon
Databricks
RDQ127R45
Are you a builder and educator at heart, someone who loves breaking down complex topics, presenting at events, and creating demos that make technology tangible?
As a Databricks Developer Advocate on the Neon DevRel team, you’ll be a crucial link between our engineering teams and the community of application developers building their projects on Postgres and Neon. This role will use your technical expertise to support, inspire, and educate our user base and the wider developer community.
Your responsibilities will encompass a wide range of educational and knowledge-sharing activities. You’ll create technical blog posts and video guides, build demo projects and developer tools, deliver workshops and conference talks, and publish example integrations with frameworks and CLIs. These efforts will make Neon’s unique capabilities, such as branching for preview environments, tangible and approachable for developers, helping them get more out of the platform. Additionally, these efforts will help highlight Neon’s architecture and our technical passion to the broader application developer community.
User education will be at the heart of your role. You’ll work closely with the neon.com community and with product and engineering teams, ensuring developer needs and product development remain aligned. Reporting into the DevRel team, you’ll collaborate with fellow advocates, program managers, and the broader Databricks DevRel org to create and execute a cohesive and impactful education strategy.
The ideal candidate will embody the values of our Developer Relations team: a passion for application development, empathy for developer needs, and the ability to explain complex topics with clarity and enthusiasm.
You’ll use your skills to create deeply technical, hands-on education that empowers developers to adopt Neon effectively, while continuously gathering and sharing feedback to improve the learning journey and developer experience.
More about the Neon DevRel team
Neon is Databricks’ product-led growth Serverless Postgres and BaaS platform, built with the vision of helping developers ship faster. Delivering on this mission depends on building trust and recognition within a growing community of application developers, while also serving the broader Databricks user base.
The neon.com DevRel team at Databricks is focused on building and strengthening relationships with application developers, while also expanding its reach into areas like code generation and AI-driven development. Our primary goal is to drive awareness, enablement, and engagement of the neon.com platform through a product-led growth motion.
The impact you will have
- Break down complicated technical topics and make them approachable for developers of all levels.
- Create deeply technical demos that highlight Neon’s craftsmanship, such as starter kits, LLM rules, and developer tools.
- Partner with Engineering to produce detailed technical blog posts that showcase Neon’s design and capabilities.
- Deliver technical conference talks, workshops, and livestreams that educate and inspire.
- Build reusable example projects and integrations with popular frameworks and developer tools, showing how Neon fits into real workflows.
- Provide educational assets that help both new and experienced developers use Neon effectively.
- Gather and analyze developer feedback to refine educational materials and improve the overall developer experience.
What we look for
- 3+ years of experience as a Developer Advocate, software engineer, solutions architect, or related role.
- Professional experience building and shipping software, demos, or developer tools.
- Proven ability to explain technical concepts with clarity through writing, teaching, or presenting.
- Strong knowledge of Postgres, application development workflows, and modern dev tools (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, AI agents).
- Experience creating technical content that drives developer understanding and adoption.
- Comfortable building demo projects, starter kits, and integrations from scratch.
- Exceptional communication skills, including strong presentation and writing abilities.
- Track record of community involvement (talks, workshops, open source, user groups) and effective cross-functional collaboration.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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