Senior Developer Experience Advocate

Responsibilities

• Design and build prototypes, reference implementations, and example repositories demonstrating practical use of company tools.
• Create prototypes that validate product direction and accelerate engineering iteration.
• Build tooling that reduces friction in analytics engineering workflows.
• Write technical content for the dbt Developer Blog, guides, and documentation.
• Publish data and analytics engineering knowledge and best practices.
• Develop enablement resources for internal teams and the dbt Community and support product launches as a subject matter expert.
• Represent the product area across Community Slack, GitHub, conferences, and public forums.
• Collect and synthesize community feedback for product and engineering teams and bring practitioner perspectives into product design reviews.
• Identify developer-experience sharp edges, regressions, and gaps.
• Maintain and triage open-source repositories and community projects and contribute code and design reviews.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a closely related field.
• Hands-on dbt knowledge and practitioner-level fluency.
• Expert spoken and written technical communication with published data or analytics engineering content.
• Strong data and analytics engineering fundamentals, including Python and SQL proficiency and the ability to contribute to open-source codebases.
• Comfort with AI and enthusiasm for adapting AI into work practices.
• Ability to work autonomously, set priorities, communicate clearly, and deliver with minimal direction.
• Strong product sense and ability to translate user needs into concrete product feedback.
• Existing dbt Community presence or prior hands-on use of dbt tools is a bonus.
• Developer relations, developer experience, or developer advocacy experience at a developer tools company is a bonus.
• Experience building with or for AI coding agents is a bonus.
• Open-source contributions in the data ecosystem are a bonus.
• Public speaking at data or developer conferences and experience with Fusion and the dbt platform are bonuses.

Benefits

• Full-time, fully remote position based in the United States.
• Employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type.
• Paid time off, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
• RSU stock grants.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• Virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities.
• Monthly cell phone stipend.
• Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources for covered employees and dependents.