Developer Relations Engineer

Now Hiring Intern Level 1 Level 2 Senior We're working through a backlog of applicants for this role and aren't currently accepting new applications. Please check back in a few months!

We’re Fly.io, and we’re building a new public cloud. We transmogrify containers into lightweight VMs and run them on our hardware around the world – hundreds of thousands of applications rely on us, running on every continent except Antarctica. If you haven’t already, take us for spin . Your app will be up and running in just minutes.

Unlike all the rest of our roles, these roles are geographically specific;DevRel here is in large part about engaging local communities and going to in-person events. We’re currentlyhiring DevRel people who can travel and work full time in North America. Of course, our whole thing is that we deploy everywhere else in theworld, too, so we’ll be expanding from there soon.

There are a lot DevRel jobs where you have to make your own fun, because the product is about eliminating some gnarly business slog like inventory management or expense tracking or underwriting. We’re not knocking those jobs! There’s nobility in eliminating slogs!

But this isn’t one of those jobs. We’re doing something big, something that’s about software development itself. We’re one of a number of upstart companies rethinking the public cloud, breaking down infrastructure problems that used to take months of work and dedicated headcount into a platform that our users can gain fluency with in a matter of minutes. If you’re our kind of developer, the fun in this job is built-in.

We’re looking for people who are passionate about JavaScript. On the client, on the server, or even on the microcontroller. Whatever framework you like : we support you, even though we still don’t understand how you can know what `this` is.

Folks working in DevRel at Fly.io interact with three different groups of people :

• Group A : our product teams, like in every other devrel job : the people building the platform and its features.
• Group B : our “framework” teams, which are a fun quirk of Fly.io : these are small teams of people organized around individual application frameworks like Rails, Django, Phoenix, and whatever people are doing in Javascript these days.
• Group H : the “developer community”, a term the industry uses because it is apparently squicked out by the word “customer”.

As a DevRel engineer here, your whole deal would be connecting the groups, per this schematic diagram :

You’ll accomplish this by deploying all of your “skills of an artist”, hopefully including things like :

This Role Is A Good Fit For You If :

You’ll Know You’re Succeeding If :

More Details

This is a fully-remote, full-time position.

In order to optimize for pay equity, Fly.io doesn’t negotiate salaries. We have standardized salaries for each employee level. The salary for this role is, depending on level, $134k or $190k USD. We offer competitive equity grants with a long exercise window. US employees get health care, everyone gets flexible vacation time (with a minimum), hardware / phone allowances, the standard stuff.

Our hiring process may be a little different from what you’re used to. We respect career experience but we aren’t hypnotized by it, and we’re thrilled at the prospect of discovering new talent. So instead of resumes and interviews, we’re going to show you the kind of work we’re doing and then see if you enjoy actually doing it, with “work-sample challenges”. Unlike a lot of places that assign “take-home problems”, our challenges are the backbone of our whole process; they’re not pre-screeners for an interview gauntlet. (We’re happy to talk, though!)

If you’re interested, mail jobs devreldotjs@fly.io. You can tell us a bit about yourself, if you like. Please also include 1. your location, 2. your GitHub username, and 3. your favorite industry euphemism for “customer”, so we know you’re not a bot.

Work From North America only

Salary : $134,000 - $190,000