OpenSearch Sr. Developer Advocate, Open Source Strategy & Marketing

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join the Open Source Strategy & Marketing team. Our creative, experienced, and energetic organization is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of OpenSearch. In this role, you’ll combine your technical skills, passion, and creativity to generate grass-roots attention and support for OpenSearch among key industry innovators and technologists.

Ideally, you’re someone who comes from a software development, database, or SRE background; but you love to be on stage or on screen guiding the community towards technologies that you believe in. You have immediate credibility with startups, developers, architects, and technology leaders. You’re excited about open source software and search engines. You love to share your passion with others and you exhibit judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.

This Developer Advocate role will have substantial travel to connect with the OpenSearch community. Between travel, you’ll interact with community actively on GitHub by reviewing and commenting on code, contributing to the OpenSearch docs, and by creating written content in the public on the OpenSearch website.

Key job responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining relevant content (demos, videos, blogs, podcasts, livestreams, etc), covering OpenSearch along with emerging technologies and industry developments.
• Gaining industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee and speaker at third-party technology conferences, shows, and press events.
• Curating, developing, and delivering compelling presentations to help drive awareness and adoption of OpenSearch.
• Maintaining a credible presence in social media
• Ability to travel (including internationally when needed) and ability to work autonomously
  
  

A day in the life

As an influencer, you'll use your unique personality and authentic content to help attract contributors and users to OpenSearch and keep them engaged and inspired to build.

As a part of the OpenSearch project, you'll engage with Builders to identify and anticipate user challenges. You will represent the voice of Builders with internal service teams and leverage the data you gathered from the community to help influence the project.

As an ambassador, you'll build long-term relationships with members of the OpenSearch community. You'll work with others in the OpenSearch community to identify areas to engage, amplify the materials and resources you create, and identify areas of improvement in the project's public content.

About The Team

AWS Developer Experience is a technical marketing team focused on winning the hearts and minds of Builders at scale. The Open Source Strategy and Marketing (OSSM - pronounced “awesome”) team inside Developer Experience includes veterans that have worked for some of the industry’s top open source companies and foundations. We help service teams, the field, and others effectively engage with project communities, media and analysts, foundations and partners, and others in the broader open source community.

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years working in a hands-on technical role in software development (backend or fullstack development), architecture, database administration, or operations (SRE, DevOps).
• Experience contributing to an open source project.
• Experience with public speaking, content creation, and presentation skills (in person and online).
• Experience working with technical communities.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on knowledge and experience with OpenSearch.
• Understanding of NoSQL data modelling and distributed systems.
• Demonstrable following in social and technical channels such as Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, Twitch, or other local platforms.
• Experience managing and/or maintaining medium to large scale projects on GitHub.
• Success in nurturing, engaging with, and growing large open source projects.
• Track record of contributing to documentation and/or writing technical how-to content.
  
  

Company - AWS EMEA SARL (Israel Branch)

Job ID: A2824800