Trunk · 4 hours ago
Senior Developer Advocate
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$140K/yr - $190K/yr
3+ years expTrunk.io is a company focused on helping teams create high-quality software quickly. They are looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to drive developer awareness and engagement, create content, and improve documentation while representing the company in developer communities and conferences.
Developer ToolsInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Own events and speaking: Attend and deliver talks at developer and platform engineering conferences. Own the event strategy, build relationships with organizers, and partner with Sales on lead capture and follow-up. Expect ~30% travel
Drive content production: Own the pipeline from ideation to publication—technical blog posts, webinars, demo videos, case studies. Work with engineering for technical depth; you own the output
Embed in developer communities: Show up where platform engineers talk shop. Surface insights to Product and GTM weekly; turn community presence into inbound interest
Own docs and onboarding content: Ship improvements based on friction you discover. Docs are a conversion lever - you're accountable for their quality
Qualification
Required
3-5+ years in developer advocacy/relations with hands-on engineering background
Proven conference speaker (share links to recorded talks)
Strong technical writer with published work that developers read & share (share samples)
Community native with measurable reach (tell us where and how many)
Metrics-driven: you've optimized content/events based on data, not vibes
Lived the pain of flaky tests, slow CI, or merge hell firsthand
Preferred
Experience marketing to platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure teams
Prior work at a dev tools company
Existing relationships with conference organizers
Benefits
Unlimited PTO
Competitive salary and equity
Work-life balance
Lunch ordered in on us at the office on Wednesdays and Thursdays
Few meetings, so you can ship fast and focus on building
One Medical membership on us!
Top-notch medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
All insurance is 100% company-paid ($0 premiums) for employees and highly subsidized for dependents
FSA, HSA with company contributions, and pre-tax commuter benefits
401(k) plan
Paid parental leave ( up to 12 weeks)
Company
Trunk
Trunk is a DevEx toolkit that enables you to ship code quickly while maintaining the guardrails necessary for a large team
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$28.52M2022-04-04Series A· $25M
2021-02-04Seed· $3.52M
Leadership Team
Chris Clearwater
Co-Founder
David Apirian
Founder
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