Developer Relations Engineer

Responsibilities:

As a Developer Relations Engineer, you’ll work to:

• Understand the goals of the community developers and help them navigate through their journey of building on the Internet Computer.
• Become an oracle of technical guidance for our developers on our community forum or face-to-face in the Developer Partner and Developer Grants programs.
• Aggregate feedback from the developer community and help align the internal organization to prioritize feature requests from the community and developer partners.
• Constantly helping improve our developer-facing products by establishing and measuring key metrics and conducting user research.
• Support adjacent teams, like marketing and legal, in the creation of developer-facing content and collateral.
• Helping create demos and tutorials, contribute to technical documentation, and lead external training, meetups, and presentations.

Background and Skills:

If a lot of these sound like you, you might be a good fit for our team:

• You have a degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent experience
• You have 5+ years of related professional experience, preferably with hand-on professional experience as a software engineer
• Strong background and understanding of the crypto ecosystem
• You’ve worked on multiple computing platforms (web, mobile, desktop, cloud, embedded) and understand their developer experience
• You can engage in active listening until you fully understand someone's problem
• You could explain a complex concept (e.g. encryption, sharding, the electoral college) to a 5-year old
• You’ve identified the “lightbulb moment” when introducing a new concept and restructured existing communication to support it
• You know how to solicit and incorporate constructive feedback from stakeholders
• You do the right thing even when it’s hard and treat challenges as a chance to learn
• You share your honest opinions so the team can improve
• You’ve invested in improving your own workflow and are a multiplier for your team
• You can effectively collaborate with co-workers across multiple sites and time zones
• You know at least one and are eager to learn more of JavaScript, Rust, Motoko or Haskell

Base Salary Range:  $150,000 - $235,000/yr

This position can be considered across multiple levels. Total compensation at DFINITY consists of base salary + bonus and is determined based on multiple factors including job leveling, areas of expertise, educational background, geographic location and overall experience.  

In addition to the cash components of our offers, we have generous benefits including top tier medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability insurance; life insurance; 401(k); flexible PTO policy in addition to paid holidays.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.