Developer adoption is crucial to the success of our mission. We’re looking for a Developer Advocate in North America to promote the use of Neon Serverless Postgres with our Partners and developers.

As a Developer Advocate at Neon, you will

• Play a crucial role in building brand awareness, driving developer adoption, and fostering relationships with the developer community.
• Create engaging technical content across written, video and in-person channels.
• Deliver compelling presentations and demos at industry conferences, meetups, webinars, and other relevant events to educate developers on the power Neon Serverless Postgres and adjacent technologies.
• Be the bridge between our Engineering team and the Developer community, helping to ensure that our product is well understood, supported, and embraced by developers.
• Establish yourself as a subject matter expert by sharing your insights, experiences, and best practices in the developer community through public speaking engagements.
• Attend relevant industry conferences, meetups, and events to stay up to date with the latest trends, network with developers, and represent Neon and our product.
• Collaborate with the design, product, and technical writer to keep the Storefront of our product relevant to the user’s questions and needs. You will co-own the content and steer the development of our Blog, Guides, HowTo's & Documentation.
• Have a chance to influence marketing and branding efforts in addition to developer relations.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience
• Deep technical knowledge and hands-on experience in web application development (Javascript, Typescript, Node.js)
• Strong communication skills and a track record of engaging talks and presentations (we expect you to have a highly engaged user audience)
• Demonstrated experience in technical content creation, such as Youtube videos, blog posts, tutorials, documentation
• Passion for building and nurturing developer communities, with a track record of successful community engagement initiatives
• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to hold the attention of the audience
• Confident and comfortable presenting to different types of audiences, large and small
• The ability to communicate technically complicated topics simply and elegantly
• Passion for technology and a deep understanding of the developer ecosystem
• Empathy and a customer-centric mindset, with a genuine desire to help developers succeed
• Intellectual curiosity, with excellent problem-solving skills
• Deep knowledge of relational/non-relational database technologies

About Neon

Our team

• We are a distributed team of 55 people working from 22 countries (concentrating around North America and Europe time zones)
• We are a team built on open sources cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, proactivity)
• Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical
• We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Arseny, Matthias profiles)
• We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source
• We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
• We are keen to be a fast-moving flat org and avoid hierarchical structures

Our Investors

• Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:
  • We raised $54.3m from GGV Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund
  • Our angels investors are prominent technologists, and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney
  • Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Leigh Marie Braswell

Our Offer

• You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling ambitious team
• You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
• We pay top of the market in most parts of the world
• We grant equity (stock options) for all full-time hires
• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)
• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Cyprus)