Staff Developer Relations Engineer

The role, in a nutshell:

As Developer Relations Engineer, you’ll be part of the Chainguard Developer Enablement team, which supports the mission of securing the software supply chain through developer advocacy, product documentation, tutorials, courses, and workshops. Your role is to connect with, inspire, and educate developers about the power of Chainguard Images and Wolfi, a new security-first linux distribution. You will also serve as the voice of the community with Chainguard, delivering product feedback and advocating for the developer.

You are an experienced technologist who loves to support others. You get excited about sharing new tools and helping peer developers build effectively. Ideally, you have built production-quality software adhering to security recommendations, and have shared demos and talks at meetups and other events. You will have an opportunity to directly collaborate and innovate across the product and engineering teams to ensure we are supporting and continuing to build solutions that our customers love.

What you’ll do:

• Define and execute initiatives to grow awareness and adoption of Chainguard Images and Wolfi
• Build hands-on demos, integrations, technical material, and examples
• Create content across multiple media, including blogs, talks, social media and videos related to Chainguard Images and Wolfi
• Develop educational materials and run developer and customer workshops
• Interact with users where they are, both online (e.g.: Reddit, Stack Overflow, Xwitter, podcasts) and in person (conferences, meetups, company talks)
• Listen to, analyze, and disseminate relevant developer insights with the product and engineering teams, influencing the roadmap and product strategy
• Review internal product and engineering design documents from the developer’s perspective
• Speak about Chainguard Images, Wolfi and related technologies at relevant community events; this includes both conceptual, high-level material and technical, hands-on training
• Review issues and community forums related to Chainguard Images or Wolfi, smoothing the developer experience and helping solve recurring issues
• Test and QA images and Wolfi and then submit bug reports and feature requests that help improve the developer experience
• Collaborate with engineering, marketing, and sales to stay informed on feature work and got to market strategies

What we're looking for:

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, build rapport and relate to developers, especially container users, in both written and verbal forms
• Experience as a software developer who has worked with containers and containerized workloads, whether as part of a role or as an open source contributor 
• A solid understanding of containers and container-related technology
• Familiarity with and knowledge of free and open source software, software package ecosystems, and Linux distributions
• Preference for experience in the python or java programming language ecosystems
• Knowledge related to software vulnerabilities and vulnerability management
• Active contributor, member, or leader in one or more software or open source communities
• Willing and able to travel up to 30% of the time for talks, conferences, and workshops