Developer Relations Engineer

Please note - This is a San Francisco / Bay Area based role.

As our first DevRel hire, you’ll be the familiar face to Inngest's developer audience—whether in our Discord community, at local events, or on screen via tutorials and guides.

A successful candidate will have experience creating high-quality and engaging content combined with a commitment to showcasing Inngest's abilities through community involvement. As this role is equal parts engineering, speaking, and writing, you’ll gain a deep understanding of how Inngest works, how our customers use the product, and how we can improve our experience.

What you’ll do

As a DevRel, you will create various forms of content to share Inngest’s capabilities. Combining your engineering skills and communication skills, you’ll increase Inngest online as well as local presence in the Bay Area by focusing on:

• Writing blog posts and tutorials to help developers discover useful use cases, as well as getting started with ready-to-use templates.

• Building demos that drive curiosity of developers and spark word of mouth on social media.

• Speaking at events in San Francisco to increase Inngest’s awareness among the AI developers community.

• Posting regular updates and content on social media to keep our community informed and engaged.

• Contributing to content strategy by collaborating with the Marketing team (Content Engineer, Developer Marketers) to identify and prioritize engaging topics.

• Act as an internal advocate for developers to share feedback and insight with our team in order to help us build an even better developer experience and product.

Who you are

• An engineer first: proficiency in TypeScript and Node/Next.js; you understand how APIs and queueing systems work. Bonus for basic knowledge of Python, and/or Go.

• Developers are your friends; you understand them and enjoy spending time with them online and in person.

• Educating developers is your passion: You care deeply about the developer experience and know how to translate complex technical concepts into memorable and easy-to-follow written and interactive content.

• Bonus — You like to produce video content: Developers love video content, and you love to create some, from scenario to recording and editing. ****

First 90 days

• First week: You’ll understand how Inngest works, the concepts we’ve introduced, and how developers get started with us

• By day 30: You’ll dive deeper into Inngest features and use cases by writing your first articles and building your first demo.

• By day 90: You’ll have found your content production pace and collaborated with the Marketing + GTM team to shape the content strategy.