Senior Developer Advocate

About the role:

Were seeking a hands-on and self-starting Senior Developer Advocate at Samsara. Samsara processes 9T data points annually supports 100B API calls and boasts a growing marketplace with 300 partner integrations. Our customers and partners are increasingly leveraging this data to build innovative applications in the connected operations space and you will be at the forefront of this expansion.

As part of Developer Relations at Samsara you will create momentum and drive adoption of the platform through your interactions with developers building applications and businesses on Samsara. Youll report to Samsaras Head of Developer Ecosystem and collaborate with a world-class team of product engineering business development and marketing professionals.

This role is open to candidates residing in the US and Canada.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores reduce emissions and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work this role wont be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• Youre energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara we win together celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.

In this role you will:

• Create high-impact 1:many content and resources for developers including sample applications developer guides video tutorials and more. This is the most high-impact and important aspect of the role as the industry moves towards code-generation and coding assistants.
• Influence the direction of our developer offerings through running tight feedback loops with developers identifying key developer experience gaps and championing empathy for the developer persona across Samsara.
• Drive growth of the developer community by engaging with and fostering interactions between developers through office hours hackathons webinars forums developer campaigns owning the Developer Track at Samsaras customer conference oand more.
• Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 4-6 years in developer advocacy or in a comparable role (e.g. software development)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and proficient in communicating technical concepts simplistically. Must be comfortable presenting to customers partners and internal audiences and must exhibit empathy for a wide range of developers (e.g. developers just starting out developers using the latest technologies developers coding on legacy stacks)
• Proven track record of delivering engaging well-written and technically robust enablement content for a technical audience (e.g. guides blogs videos). A key portion of the interview process will be walking the interviewers through a sample app and/or piece of technical content you created.
• Bias-to-action and hands-on experience delivering business results. Youre not afraid to get your hands dirty.
• B.S. M.S. or technical degree related to software development.
• Experience working with REST APIs JSON Webhooks Python and App Development.
• Strong hands-on developer who is comfortable with understanding and building software applications

An ideal candidate also has:

• Strong familiarity with enterprise customer goals & expectations from a technical perspective.
• Builder mindset as evidenced by technical side projects and contributions to open-source projects.
• Proficient in other common coding languages (e.g. Java Javascript ).

Required Experience:

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