DigitalOcean · 1 month ago
Staff Developer Advocate
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$201K/yr - $239K/yrDigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud and AI for developers. As a Developer Advocate, you will inspire and equip developers to create, deploy, and operate software with DigitalOcean, while working closely with various teams to enhance the developer experience.
Cloud ComputingDevOpsSaaSVirtualizationWeb Hosting
Responsibilities
Create code and content that educates developers so they can be successful with DigitalOcean. The code and content will drive our business through authentic engagement with developers. It will also serve as a key input into constantly improving our developer experience. The content can be in the form of written tutorials, videos, workshops, social media posts and any other mediums that developers care about
Provide insightful and meaningful feedback to Product teams based on your usage of the products. The best way to improve developer experience is to show rather than tell, so a significant portion of this work will involve building with our platform to identify rough edges and weaknesses that need to be improved
Guide and mentor the Developer Relations individuals and teams based on your experience for how to best serve developers
Decide how to scale our developer relations efforts. As we see success with our execution in videos, events, workshops, and other tactics, we’ll need to figure out the best way to invest in efficiently and effectively scaling up those executions to authentically serve even more developers
Qualification
Required
Significant experience in at least one major programming language such as Python, JavaScript/Type, Java or C#
A breadth of experience with several other programming ecosystems
Demonstrated previous experience in creating publicly-available high quality, customer-facing technical content such as videos, written content, research publications
Self-starter attitude, empathetic, and motivated to serve developers and make the colleagues around you better
Benefits
Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
Employee Assistance Program
Local Employee Meetups
Flexible time off policy
Bonus in addition to base salary
Equity compensation to eligible employees
Equity grants upon hire
Option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program
Company
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean provides a cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size.
Founded in 2012
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (30)
2024 (8)
2023 (9)
2022 (22)
2021 (11)
2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.92BKey Investors
Global Secure InvestAccess IndustriesKeyBanc Capital Markets
2025-08-12Post Ipo Debt· $625M
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $800M
2021-09-13Post Ipo Equity· $34.91M
Leadership Team
Paddy Srinivasan
Chief Executive Officer
Larry D'Angelo
Chief Revenue Officer
Recent News
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