Developer Advocate - Neon

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Are you a builder and educator at heart someone who loves breaking down complex topics presenting at events and creating demos that make technology tangible

As a Databricks Developer Advocate on the Neon DevRel team youll be a crucial link between our engineering teams and the community of application developers building their projects on Postgres and Neon. This role will use your technical expertise to support inspire and educate our user base and the wider developer community.

Your responsibilities will encompass a wide range of educational and knowledge-sharing activities. Youll create technical blog posts and video guides build demo projects and developer tools deliver workshops and conference talks and publish example integrations with frameworks and CLIs. These efforts will make Neons unique capabilities such as branching for preview environments tangible and approachable for developers helping them get more out of the platform. Additionally these efforts will help highlight Neons architecture and our technical passion to the broader application developer community.

User education will be at the heart of your role. Youll work closely with the community and with product and engineering teams ensuring developer needs and product development remain aligned. Reporting into the DevRel team youll collaborate with fellow advocates program managers and the broader Databricks DevRel org to create and execute a cohesive and impactful education strategy.

The ideal candidate will embody the values of our Developer Relations team: a passion for application development empathy for developer needs and the ability to explain complex topics with clarity and enthusiasm.

Youll use your skills to create deeply technical hands-on education that empowers developers to adopt Neon effectively while continuously gathering and sharing feedback to improve the learning journey and developer experience.

More about the Neon DevRel team

Neon is Databricks product-led growth Serverless Postgres and BaaS platform built with the vision of helping developers ship faster. Delivering on this mission depends on building trust and recognition within a growing community of application developers while also serving the broader Databricks user base.

The DevRel team at Databricks is focused on building and strengthening relationships with application developers while also expanding its reach into areas like code generation and AI-driven development. Our primary goal is to drive awareness enablement and engagement of the platform through a product-led growth motion.

The impact you will have

• Break down complicated technical topics and make them approachable for developers of all levels.
• Create deeply technical demos that highlight Neons craftsmanship such as starter kits LLM rules and developer tools.
• Partner with Engineering to produce detailed technical blog posts that showcase Neons design and capabilities.
• Deliver technical conference talks workshops and livestreams that educate and inspire.
• Build reusable example projects and integrations with popular frameworks and developer tools showing how Neon fits into real workflows.
• Provide educational assets that help both new and experienced developers use Neon effectively.
• Gather and analyze developer feedback to refine educational materials and improve the overall developer experience.

What we look for

• 3 years of experience as a Developer Advocate software engineer solutions architect or related role.
• Professional experience building and shipping software demos or developer tools.
• Proven ability to explain technical concepts with clarity through writing teaching or presenting.
• Strong knowledge of Postgres application development workflows and modern dev tools (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript React AI agents).
• Experience creating technical content that drives developer understanding and adoption.
• Comfortable building demo projects starter kits and integrations from scratch.
• Exceptional communication skills including strong presentation and writing abilities.
• Track record of community involvement (talks workshops open source user groups) and effective cross-functional collaboration.