Senior Developer Advocate

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, Germany

Overview

GitHub is uniquely positioned to help enterprises and start-ups grow as well as help the world of software development and open source collaboration be better, safer and more welcoming to people of all backgrounds. We are looking for an experienced developer and communicator who is based in mainland Europe to join our well established and growing global Developer Relations team working closely with product, engineering, marketing and sales leaders across the company.

Responsibilities

What does Developer Relations at GitHub do?

Whether the person is brand new to coding, a maker, a hobbyist, someone working on a personal project, someone contributing to open source, a team launching their first startup or someone working as part of a group in a large enterprise – they are a developer and we want to be there to support them and help them make awesome things.

• Be on the ground, serving developers in regions around the world from our position in the core of the product team at GitHub.
• Spark creativity and excitement around GitHub, and are always finding new ways to connect with developers.
• Help IT people see how new features can make them faster, collaborate better, be more efficient, and more creative.
• Connect product teams with the people they need to learn from to make GitHub work better for them – and help the engineering org learn from our customers.
• Keep open source communities up to speed with the latest changes they can take advantage of and help maintainers be even more awesome than they already are.
• Success? That’s based on the happiness of developers, success of open source, ability to influence product direction, and enabling the creativity of our superfans and the community around GitHub.

What would you do?

• Learn …everything about GitHub and what problems Enterprise developers are trying to solve so you know how best to communicate with them and advocate for their needs with-in the wider product team.
• Share …your industry knowledge and details about how GitHub builds products and organizes teams with peers and C-Levels at our customer and partner companies in Europe and beyond.
• Nurture …communities of engineers in EMEA and across the world that are using GitHub for their collaboration.
• Teach …define, create and execute on technical content creation programs across the company.
• Communicate …and represent the company by speaking at technical events and in interviews with press and analysts.
• Manage Relationships …by building a wide and diverse network amongst the Enterprise developer community.
• Create Experiences …including organizing and participating in online or virtual events, hackathons and managing Q&As.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in community/audience engagement, information technology (IT), software development, or other related work experiences.
• Experience leading technical conversations with engineers and their leaders around the end to end DevOps workflows.
• Experience communicating with a range of audiences including C-Level Executives about topics related to software development.
• Significant technical experience with Git and GitHub.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Past experience working with GitHub and an array of our partners in the cloud platforms space.
• Significant knowledge and experience of current trends in software development.
• Experience with applying DevOps principles in engineering teams.
• Experience as a technical meet-up leader or community builder.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life.#J-18808-Ljbffr