Senior Developer Advocate

Elastic

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$113,100–$178,900 / yr
Posted
12 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $146k
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This role pays less than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$195,400 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $146k versus about $169k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Elastic

Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.

Elastic currently has 52 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $133,100–$210,600 across 52 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Developer Advocate

The Senior Developer Advocate joins the community team to champion the Elastic Stack, which includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. This role involves supporting a global user base by speaking at in-person and virtual conferences, meetups, and other events. Day-to-day responsibilities include answering developer questions on forums like Slack and Discuss, while building content such as blog posts, example code, demos, tutorials, and videos for YouTube. The successful candidate will contribute code to GitHub repositories and provide community feedback to engineering teams to improve products. Requirements include a deep technical background in software engineering, excellent communication skills, and the ability to create compelling technology content. The role focuses on search and AI use cases to help organizations manage structured and unstructured data.

What you'll do

  • Speak publicly at in-person and virtual conferences, meetups, and other community events.
  • Answer developer questions on the Discuss forum, Slack, and other online channels.
  • Create and share content including blog posts, social media updates, tutorials, and videos.
  • Write and share example code and technical demos on the company website and YouTube.
  • Contribute code to both internal and external repositories on GitHub.
  • Provide community feedback to engineering teams to help improve Elastic products.

What we're looking for

  • Deep technical background and experience in an engineering role, such as software engineering.
  • Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology, including speaking, writing, and demoing.
  • Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.
  • Experience working as a contributor in self-organizing teams.
  • Ability to work comfortably with a highly distributed team.
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