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Senior Developer Relations Engineer

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Description

Amplify public security work and deepen relationships with security practitioners, researchers, maintainers, and open-source communities. The role combines community development, technical content, conference participation, open-source support, developer education, and hands-on software contributions.

Responsibilities

  • Grow relationships across the security community and establish new ones
  • Attend and speak at security conferences and cybersecurity meetups
  • Support open-source projects and maintainers
  • Facilitate technical office hours connecting maintainers with engineers
  • Turn research and releases into advisories, writeups, and reusable guidance
  • Optimize tools, skills, and plugins for adoption
  • Teach security methods through workshops and hands-on sessions
  • Publish deep dives, tutorials, and technical write-ups
  • Help engineers identify, prepare, and deliver conference talks
  • Run published work against unfamiliar code and provide feedback
  • Ship runnable examples and workflow integrations
  • Improve project onboarding, documentation, and first-run experiences
  • Attract external contributors and encourage continued contributions
  • Communicate practitioner needs, research gaps, and emerging ecosystems internally

Requirements

  • Build and ship software such as tools, libraries, integrations, skills, or agents
  • Read unfamiliar code, run analyzers, and open merged pull requests
  • Have deep hands-on security experience, typically seven or more years
  • Build with agentic tooling including skills, agents, MCP servers, harnesses, and evals
  • Have a public body of work including talks, posts, upstream contributions, research, or documentation
  • Possess credibility within security and open-source communities
  • Demonstrate strong technical writing and public speaking ability
  • Make and defend decisions under ambiguity
  • Experience maintaining or meaningfully contributing to open-source projects
  • Depth in application security, blockchain and cryptography, AI/ML security, or low-level systems research
  • Experience running or programming a community venue at meaningful scale
  • Contributions to developer documentation shipped alongside code
  • Involvement with open-source foundations, grant programs, or maintainer initiatives
  • Willingness to travel approximately one quarter of the year

Benefits

  • Fully company-paid health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
  • 401(k) plan with a 5% base salary match
  • 20 days of paid vacation
  • 4 months of parental leave
  • $10,000 relocation assistance for moving to NYC
  • $1,000 working-from-home stipend
  • Annual $750 learning and development stipend
  • Company-sponsored all-team celebrations with travel and accommodation
  • Philanthropic contribution matching up to $2,000 annually
  • Annual performance-based bonuses

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