Senior Developer Advocate, AWS Developer Experience

Are you a developer who loves sharing knowledge and building bridges between technology and people Do you get excited about explaining complex technical concepts in simple terms Are you passionate about helping other developers succeed and growing developer communities If youre a natural teacher with deep technical expertise and excellent communication skills we want to talk to you!

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Developer Advocate to join our team in Tokyo this role youll spearhead our developer engagement efforts across Japan driving adoption of AWS services and fostering a thriving developer ecosystem.


Key job responsibilities
As a Developer Advocate youll create engaging technical content including tutorials blog posts and sample applications that helps developers succeed with our platform. Youll represent our company at conferences meetups and online events delivering technical talks and workshops that educate and inspire. Youll gather developer feedback to help shape our product roadmap and work closely with our engineering teams to ensure our platform meets developer needs. Your role will involve building and nurturing relationships with developer communities contributing to open-source projects and establishing yourself as a trusted voice in the technical community.

A day in the life
Your typical day might begin with reviewing and responding to developer questions on our community forums followed by working on a technical blog post. You might spend the middle of your day collaborating with the product team on upcoming features sharing insights gathered from the developer community.

After lunch you could be recording a tutorial video demonstrating best practices then joining a remote meetup to give a technical presentation. Later you might work on code samples for an upcoming workshop or participate in planning discussions for a developer conference.

Throughout the day youre engaging with developers on social media sharing insights and staying current with industry trends while maintaining your technical expertise through hands-on coding.


- Bachelors degree or above in computer science or equivalent
- 8 years of full stack development experience
- Strong programming skills in one or more modern programming languages
- Experience creating technical content (blogs tutorials hands-on workshops)
- Excellent communication and public speaking skills with experience delivering technical content to developers of varied backgrounds.
- Demonstrable experience engaging with developer communities including meetups conferences or active participation on platforms like GitHub Stack Overflow or developer forums.

- Experience working with AWS Services
- Experience leading the architecture and design of new and current systems
- Willingness to travel as required

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