Senior Developer Experience Advocate

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Developer Experience Advocate to join the Developer Experience (DX) team at dbt Labs — a team of dbt experts on the forefront of serving dbt developers and building the next generation of data workflows. We partner across our internal product and go-to-market teams, as well as across the dbt Community, operating using the PRIME framework: Prototype, Represent, Ideate, Maintain, and Enable.

This is a senior, high-impact role for a data engineering generalist who wants to spend their time in public. You will execute developer experience and developer relations work across our product surface — such as dbt State, dbt Fusion, and dbt Wizard, and the Fivetran connector SDK — helping practitioners succeed with our tools and raising our thought leadership in open data infrastructure.

This is a highly autonomous role. You will set your own priorities, communicate them clearly, and deliver high-quality work without heavy direction. In exchange, you get real ownership of a focus area, significant internal and external visibility, and leadership that protects your time rather than managing your calendar. We're looking for someone who can hit the ground running — shipping meaningful work within their first two weeks.

This is a full-time, fully remote position based in the United States. This role reports to the Director of Community, Developer Experience & AI.

What You'll Do

• Design and build prototypes, reference implementations, and example repositories that show practitioners how to get real work done with our tools.
• Create working prototypes that validate product direction and accelerate engineering iteration.
• Build tooling that removes friction from common analytics engineering workflows.
• Author technical content for the dbt Developer Blog, guides, and documentation that makes complex concepts actionable for practitioners.
• Publish knowledge and best practices on data and analytics engineering that establish you as a resource in your product area.
• Develop enablement resources for internal teams and the dbt Community, and contribute to product launches as a subject matter expert.
• Represent your product area as a community voice across Community Slack, GitHub, conferences, and public forums.
• Collect and synthesize community feedback, surfacing insights to product and engineering, and bring the practitioner perspective into product design reviews.
• Identify and flag sharp edges, regressions, or gaps in the developer experience.
• Maintain and triage relevant open source repositories and community projects, contributing code and design reviews with an eye toward developer ergonomics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a closely related field, with strong general knowledge of the data industry and how it is changing.
• Hands-on dbt knowledge and practitioner-level fluency.
• Expert public communication in both spoken and written technical contexts, with a track record of published articles or public-facing content on data or analytics engineering.
• Strong data and analytics engineering fundamentals, including comfort with Python and SQL and the ability to contribute to open source codebases.
• Comfort and familiarity with AI, and enthusiasm for adapting AI into how you work.
• Ability to work autonomously as a self-starter, delivering high-quality output with minimal direction.
• Strong product sense, the ability to translate user needs into concrete product feedback, and genuine enthusiasm for a public-facing role over internal product or engineering work.

Bonus Skills

• An existing footprint in the dbt Community, or prior hands-on use of dbt tools.
• Background in developer relations, developer experience, or developer advocacy at a developer tools company.
• Experience building with or for AI coding agents, and fluency with how the AI agent ecosystem is evolving.
• Contributions to open source projects in the data ecosystem (packages, adapters, community tools).
• Public speaking experience at data or developer conferences, and experience with Fusion and the dbt platform.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance.
• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year-end Global Week of Rest), and volunteer days off.
• RSU stock grants.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities.
• Monthly cell phone stipend.
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.