Senior Developer Advocate

Role Overview

As a Senior Developer Advocate, you will be an influencer in empowering developers by shaping and delivering compelling, deeply technical content across various in-person and digital channels. You will help identify emerging trends, influence the overall developer experience, and advocate for developer needs within the product unit. This role focuses on securing AI by building trusted infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace new technologies.

The Developer-Led Growth team engages with developer communities to help them adopt Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions and advocates on their behalf across the organization.

Responsibilities

Community Engagement

• Cultivate and grow relationships with developers and technical leaders through online platforms, championing their needs and driving awareness of platform technology.
• Inspire developers at in-person or remote events, including industry conferences, panels, and meetups.

Developer Advocacy

• Advocate for developers' needs and pain points, actively improving the developer experience.
• Proactively collaborate with counterparts in Product and Engineering teams as a representative of the Developer-Led Growth team.
• Collaborate on the development and launch of capabilities, including reviewing early documentation, SDKs, and product features from a content perspective.
• Bring insights and developer feedback back into the company to inform and shape product development and improvements.

Content Strategy & Creation

• Collaborate on the development and execution of content strategies to effectively reach and engage developers.
• Develop and share high-quality technical content such as blog posts, tutorials, documentation, videos, and code samples.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise, and engaging content that is easily understood by developers.

Requirements

• Technical background and hands-on experience.
• Experience with AI tooling and vibe coding.
• A demonstrated passion for inspiring developer audiences or creating content that serves the developer community.
• Ability to explain and translate technology concepts into simple and intuitive communications.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders across engineering, product, and marketing to align content strategies with business goals.
• Familiarity with identity standards and best practices is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developer advocacy, senior technical content, or technical customer success roles.
• Experience with at least one authentication or authorization protocol (OAuth, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP).
• Understanding of core security concerns within a typical application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF).
• Experience building web, mobile, and IoT applications, incorporating both front and back end languages/frameworks.

Benefits and Compensation

The annual base salary range for this position in the San Francisco Bay area is $165,000—$220,000 USD. Actual base salary depends on factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.

Additional benefits include:

• Equity (where applicable) and performance bonuses.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan and flexible spending account (FSA).
• Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
• An immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to connect you to the mission and team.