Lead Developer Advocate

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Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.

Snowflake is a developer platform for building data-intensive applications. As a Senior Developer Advocate, you’ll help create and grow the developer community. You will engage with developers and create authentic and compelling resources such as open source demos, code samples, documentation, how-to guides, and blog posts around topics such as data engineering, app development, LLMs, AI/ML, DevOps, and more.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

  • Build awareness and motivate developers to build applications, data pipelines, and data science workflows on Snowflake
  • Be hands-on. Develop and maintain resources for developers, such as open source demos and software tools, code samples, documentation, how-to guides, and tutorials
  • Engage external communities like Stack Overflow, GitHub, Slack, Reddit, and Discord to identify new resources that should be created and own the delivery of those pieces 
  • Participate in the developer data ecosystem and community, building strong relationships with engineers, architects, product managers, and founders
  • Define and own metrics to measure the success of our developer content and outreach efforts and initiatives
  • Speak at conferences, contribute to events, and engage in communities like Stack Overflow and GitHub.
  • Communicate developer requirements and provide input to product management on feature enhancements and future product direction

WHAT YOU'LL HAVE:

  • 10-12 years of experience in developer education, developer relations, and technical writing 
  • Working knowledge of platforms and tools such as: Huggingface, Llama2, mistral, Pinecone, Weaviate, LlamaIndex, and Langchain.
  • You have a working knowledge of data platforms like Kubernetes, PyTorch, Kafka, Postgres; developer tools like SDKs, APIs, LLMs, and have experience of writing code sample projects, demos, or tutorials for two of these languages: JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, Go, or Ruby
  • Experience of working within cross-functional teams (product management, marketing, product engineering, support, customer success, etc).
  • Scrappy & has a mindset that done is better than perfect.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee’s duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.