Sr Developer Advocate Databricks

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Are you a charismatic data engineering Developer Advocate at heart someone who excels in the spotlight loves presenting and hosting events and possesses a deep knowledge of the Databricks Intelligence Platform

As a Databricks Developer Advocate youll be a crucial link between our engineering teams and the broad community of data professionals building their careers on Databricks technologies. This role will leverage your strong expertise in Databricks to educate inspire and support our growing user base.

Your responsibilities will encompass a wide range of knowledgesharing activities. Youll deliver engaging talks host insightful panels and meetups create informative blogs and video content develop comprehensive courseware provide expert answers in community forums and conduct oneonone sessions with influential data engineers and scientists. These efforts will help disseminate best practices and foster a thriving Databricks community.

Community engagement will be at the heart of your role. Youll work closely with the Databricks community and the product and engineering teams ensuring that user needs and product development align seamlessly. Reporting directly to the Head of Developer Relations youll collaborate with fellow developer advocates and program managers to create and execute a cohesive and impactful developer relations strategy.

The ideal candidate for this position will embody the values of our Developer Relations team: a deep passion for data and AI genuine empathy and technical understanding of developers needs and a strong commitment to effectively explaining our products.

Youll use your diverse Databricks skill set to educate the community about Databricks technologies and continuously gather and utilize community feedback to improve the developer experience.

More about the DevRel team:

At Databricks we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the worlds most challenging problems from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the worlds best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.

Our ability to execute this mission depends on building trust and recognition with an evergrowing community of data engineers analysts scientists machine learning and AI practitioners.

The Developer Relations (DevRel) team at Databricks is dedicated to building and fostering relationships with communities of data practitioners. Our primary goal is to drive awareness and adoption of the Databricks Intelligence Platform for data and AI.

The impact you will have:

• Create compelling content to inspire data practitioners helping them discover new features and run projects at scale.
• Drive awareness and adoption of Databricks technologies through speaking engagements at industry events.
• Create highquality educational content like videos sample notebooks datasets tutorials courseware and blog posts.
• Expand and nurture the Databricks user community by organizing and growing meetups and user groups and providing support to data scientists engineers and analysts in online communities.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to share community learnings and influence product direction.
• Create and manage developerfocused programs to foster engagement and loyalty creating a positive developer experience for data practitioners.
• Gather and analyze feedback from the community to drive continuous improvement of Databricks products and services.

What we look for:

• 5 years experience as DevRel and as a software developer solutions architect or related profession
• Subject matter knowledge of solving data engineering problems at all scales.
• Active participation and recognized leadership in Databricks community forums chats and meetups
• Comprehensive understanding of the Databricks products and ecosystem
• Proven track record in nurturing developer communities organizing user groups and facilitating global meetups
• Exceptional communication skills with a talent for articulating complex concepts through writing teaching videos and public speaking
• Deep empathy for developer needs with the ability to craft engaging experiences across tutorials notebooks and community platforms
• Adept at collaborating with crossfunctional stakeholders to align community initiatives with product objectives
• Demonstrated ability to catalyze growth in both digital and inperson developer communities

Required Experience:

Senior IC