Coder
AI software development
DeveloperRelationsEngineer
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“Developer Relations Engineer at Coder. Skills: Developer Relations, Community Engagement, Technical Writing, Open Source. Be a consistent presence in Discord and GitHub. Support community contributors”
What You'll Achieve.
shape the experience that helps curious users become active practitioners, contributors, and advocates; make every path into Coder clearer, faster, and more useful; keep the registry healthy, useful, and easy to contribute to; make contributing to the registry easier; make community-facing docs complete, accurate, and actually usable; compounds over time and pulls people deeper into the Coder community; help decide whether the fix is a doc update, a script, a template, or a full reference example; connect back to highly engaged OSS deployments; increase deployments at scale; increase weekly installs and activation rate; increase community messages and engagement mix; identify champions; improve registry and docs health; make product decisions better for OSS
Industry & Context.
unblocking users; spotting recurring patterns; spot recurring signals in community feedback; prioritize what matters; route insights to the right teams; fix it when something is broken or missing
Willingness to travel up to 20%
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
software or platform engineering background, written code, managed servers, troubleshot technical systems, practitioner empathy, willingness to travel up to 20%, tinkering mindset, PM-like pattern recognition, bias for action, experience participating in technical communities, technical writing, comfort using tools that scale your impact
Nice to Have
Experience speaking at conferences, running workshops, building an audience around technical content, Experience as a community moderator, support engineer, maintainer, trusted technical presence in an active community, A recognizable presence in a technical community, Familiarity with Coder or other remote development environment tools, Prior work on a developer-facing open-source project, Exposure to enterprise platform engineering concepts
What You'll Do.
Be a consistent presence in Discord and GitHub
Support community contributors
Translate community friction into actionable feedback
Track the broader developer pulse
Balance self-serve support with direct help
Create and maintain first-party templates
Build reference templates
Make contributing to the registry easier
Review community pull requests
and automated testing
Give talks or run workshops
Build demo environments
Create hardware demos
Produce recorded demos
Run live product demos
Collaborate with marketing on content
Audit existing docs and guides
Own the getting-started experience
Write deep-dive guides
Partner with PMs and technical writers
Own at least one community program
Create end-to-end tutorials
Build and maintain a library of reference deployments
Turn repeated questions into durable resources
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
work across product, engineering, marketing, and community; partnering with engineering on registry server improvements; Collaborate with marketing on content; Partner with PMs and technical writers
Communication Scope
technical writing; clear feedback; technical story
Full Job Description
Coder is an open-source remote development platform trusted by platform engineers at some of the world’s largest enterprises. As a DevRel Engineer, you’ll shape the experience that helps curious users become active practitioners, contributors, and advocates inside their companies, universities, and home labs. You’ll curate our template registry, improve community docs and guides, show up in Discord and GitHub, and demo Coder online and in person. You’ll work across product, engineering, marketing, and our open-source community to make every path into Coder clearer, faster, and more useful. Please note that this role is contract-to-hire. What you’ll do here Community and feedback loop A great developer community starts with showing up. You’ll be a technical presence people can trust: helpful, consistent, and able to answer hard questions. - Be a consistent presence in Discord and GitHub by answering questions, unblocking users, and spotting recurring patterns. - Support community contributors by helping useful fixes, templates, and ideas move into the registry, docs, or product and engineering backlog. - Translate community friction into actionable feedback for product, engineering, docs, and marketing. - Track the broader developer pulse across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, and similar channels, then surface relevant signals internally. - Balance self-serve support with direct help so users can move quickly, with or without contacting Coder. Registry The registry has contributors across Coder and the community. Your role is to keep it healthy, useful, and easy to contribute to. - Curate the registry with a community lens: audit coverage gaps, prioritize what platform engineers need, and keep high-use templates maintained. - Create and maintain high-quality first-party templates for key stacks, including Python, Node, Go, Rust, and Java. - Build reference templates across Docker, Kubernetes, Proxmox, AWS, and bare metal. - Make contributing to the registry easier by
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