Diagrid
Software Development
DeveloperAdvocate
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“Developer Advocate at Diagrid. Skills: Developer Advocacy, Community building, Distributed systems, Dapr, AI agents. Grow the Dapr OSS Community. Drive contributor growth, engagement, and adoption metrics”
What You'll Achieve.
Focus on their code and not on infrastructure; Deliver consistent, secure and reliable code that is easily portable; Help organizations de-risk their projects; Make distributed applications radically simpler and more reliable; Drive adoption of Diagrid’s commercial platform; Make AI agents reliable and secure for the Dapr and Diagrid community; Turn developers into advocates; Help them ship faster, more resilient systems; Own community growth, content creation, and developer engagement end-to-end; High-impact, high-visibility role; Grow the Dapr OSS Community; Drive contributor growth, engagement, and adoption metrics; Moderate & Nurture the Ecosystem; Create Compelling Content; Lead Webinars & Live Sessions; Manage YouTube & Video Presence; Coordinate Events & Meetups; Build Diagrid Demos & Tools; Gather Feedback & Influence Product; Represent Diagrid publicly; Be a trusted advocate for Dapr and Diagrid
Industry & Context.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Travel as needed
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of software engineering experience, Hands-on knowledge of distributed systems, Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native technologies, Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, Hands-on knowledge of microservices, Deep familiarity with Dapr (or similar projects like Temporal, Camunda, Orkes), Ability to explain complex topics (stateful workflows, actor models, sidecar architecture, LLM orchestration) clearly and enthusiastically, Enjoy shipping code publicly, Building demos with Python, Go, TypeScript, or .NET, Thrive in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and evolving priorities, Based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Nice to Have
Prior Developer Relations experience, Prior Developer Advocate experience, Prior Community Manager experience, Speaking experience at conferences (KubeCon, Microsoft Build, etc.), Experience with AI agents, Experience with LangChain/LlamaIndex, Experience with workflow orchestration, Existing relationships in the cloud-native or AI developer communities
What You'll Do.
Grow the Dapr OSS Community
Drive contributor growth
Moderate & Nurture the Ecosystem
Actively moderate the Dapr Discord
Answer technical questions
Recognize contributors
high-signal environment
Create Compelling Content
Write high-quality blog posts
Produce architectural guides
Produce sample applications showcasing Dapr + AI agents
Lead Webinars & Live Sessions
Proactively plan and deliver technical webinars
Manage YouTube & Video Presence
Own the Dapr/Diagrid YouTube channel
and recordings of community events
Coordinate Events & Meetups
Help organize and host Dapr Meetups
Build Diagrid Demos & Tools
Create sample applications
and reference architectures
Gather Feedback & Influence Product
Act as the voice of the developer community
Surface friction points
and success stories to Engineering and Product teams
Represent Diagrid publicly
Participate in podcasts
Engage on social media
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Report work closely with Engineering; Report work closely with Product; Report work closely with Marketing; Report work closely with Sales; Report work closely with the broader open-source maintainer team
Communication Scope
Explain complex topics clearly and enthusiastically
Full Job Description
WHO WE ARE: We believe that open-source software, open standards and APIs are the greatest transformational tools for organizations in the modern software development era. Our mission at Diagrid is to provide developers with APIs and tools that help them focus on their code and not on infrastructure. As online digital services need to handle more load and run on multiple clouds or on-premises environments, programming to higher level abstractions delivers consistent, secure and reliable code that is easily portable and helps organizations de-risk their projects. Diagrid is founded by the creators of the Dapr https://dapr.io/ and KEDA https://keda.sh/ open-source projects, and who led the user experience, design and development of hyper-scale infrastructure cloud services, serverless platforms and open-source projects at Microsoft. Dapr has now achieved graduated status within the CNCF, joining renowned projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Istio. We are backed by top VC firms and supported with industry leading investors and advisors including Joe Beda (Kubernetes Co-Founder, former Co-Founder / CTO at Heptio) Matt Klein (Creator of Envoy, Lyft), Mark Russinovich (CTO, Microsoft Azure), William Morgan (Creator of Linkerd, CEO Buoyant), Seth Vargo (Senior Staff Engineer, Google), Adam Gross (Former CEO, Heroku), Sri Viswanath (Former CTO, Atlassian), Adam Frankl (Dev Marketing Expert, Neo4J & JFrog), and Roopak Venkatakrishnan (Head of platforms, Bolt). ABOUT THE TEAM The Developer Experience team at Diagrid is obsessed with making distributed applications radically simpler and more reliable for developers worldwide. We steward the wildly popular open-source Dapr project (CNCF) while driving adoption of Diagrid’s commercial platform (Diagrid Catalyst) that brings production-grade reliability and security for AI agents. Our mission is to make AI agents reliable and secure for the Dapr and Diagrid community. We create inspiring demos, technical content, events, and
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