Senior Developer Advocate

What Is The Role:

Developers and community matter. Our users and contributors have helped ensure that the Elastic Stack (including Elasticsearch Kibana Beats and Logstash) is more than just code they are free and open projects that people love to use and love to talk about.

Are you the kind of person who is keen on sharing technology with the world and supporting our global user-base Your activities as a Developer Advocate at Elastic include:

• Presenting at in-person and virtual conferences or meetups.
• Answering questions from Developers on Discuss (our forum) Slack and other forums.
• Building and sharing content including in-depth blog posts example demos tutorials and videos on or our YouTube channel.
• Contributing code on GitHub both to Elastic and external repositories.

The DevRel teams mission is to educate and help our users succeed by being (or the willingness to become) an expert in Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack within the Search and AI ecosystem.

If you read this far and think: thats me! You probably wont need to read any further and we should have a conversation. But if you doubt the type of experience we expect you to have the following should help clarify.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Foster the Elastic Community in North America (NA) with a local focus on New York (NY).
• Create technical content around the Elastic Stack for talks blog posts videos and demos.
• Speak at virtual and in-person events like conferences meetups and lunch & learn sessions in the New York area and throughout NA.
• Answer technical questions on Discuss Slack developer forums social media and at events.
• Contribute to Elastic repositories or external ones to integrate better with Elastic technologies.
• Help users be successful with Elastics stack solutions and cloud offerings.

What You Bring:

• Strong technical background and experience in an engineering role.
• Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology including speaking writing and demoing.
• Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues provide internal feedback to make Elastics products better and fix pain points where possible.
• Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.
• Experience working self-driven and self-organizing.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with and passion for the Elastic Stack.
• Proficiency in additional language(s) speaking or programming (like Golang Python Java or Rust).
• Production experience with technologies that complement Elastics technologies from Generative AI to Kubernetes.
• Involvement in past Elastic Community events as speaker or organizer.
• Experience with Open Source software or commercial Open Source companies.

Required Experience:

Senior IC