Founding Developer Advocate (DX Lead)

Quick Facts

• Role: Founding Developer Advocate (DX Lead)

• Focus: Developer experience for CI-based performance testing / devtools

Description

You will own the developer side of a performance tooling product that runs in CI—turning power-user feedback into real product changes and improving onboarding through end-to-end developer experience (docs, tutorials, and integration guides).

You’ll build partnerships with adjacent dev tools, write deep technical content (performance investigations, deep dives, conference talks), and run meetups, workshops, and challenges based on real production use cases.

You’ll also help shape how performance tooling fits into the AI era of software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Work hands-on with power users and convert feedback into product changes

• Own DX end to end: docs, tutorials, and integration guides with fast onboarding (aim for “clicks in the first 10 minutes”)

• Build partnerships with adjacent dev tools where developers already work

• Write performance-focused technical content; contribute conference-style talks

• Run meetups, workshops, and challenges tied to real production use cases

• Help define how performance tooling integrates with the AI era of software engineering

Requirements

• Strong engineering background: shipped code, can read source, and can debug a flame graph

• Hands-on experience with a low-level language (Rust or C/C++)

• Strong technical writing: make complex performance investigations readable

• Comfortable speaking in public

• Self-directed; no pre-made playbook

Nice to Haves

• Existing presence in the dev community (GitHub, Hacker News, blog, X)

• Background in observability, performance tooling, or CI/CD

• Open-source contributions around benchmarking, profilers, or runtimes

• Comfort with language and runtime internals