Senior Developer Advocate

New York City, NY (Unknown)

$147K/yr – $202K/yrSenior Level

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own developer advocacy at Auth0 by inspiring and educating developers, speaking publicly, creating technical content, and feeding feedback to product.

  • Represent developers to the platform and community
  • Drive content creation and events
  • Close the feedback loop into product development

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Outbound advocacy - As a Developer Advocate at Auth0, you will serve as the face of our platform to developers around the world, with a special focus on startups. Your role will involve inspiring, educating, and empowering developers to better secure their applications using Auth0.
  • Public speaking: Represent Auth0 at industry events, conferences, and webinars, engaging the developer community and showcasing our expertise.
  • Content creation: Develop and share high-quality technical content such as blog posts, tutorials, videos, and labs to educate and inspire developers about Auth0 and customer identity.
  • Community Building: Build and nurture relationships with developers influential within the community and our customers.
  • Developer advocacy - Advocate for developers' needs and pain points within the Auth0 Product unit in Okta, actively improving the Auth0 developer experience in and around the product.
  • Proactively collaborate with your counterparts in Product and Architecture as a representative of the DevRel team
  • Customer[0] - Collaborate on the crafting and launch of Auth0 capabilities - reviewing early documentation, SDKs, and product capabilities.
  • Customer[n+1] - Bring insights and developer feedback back into the company to inform and shape product development and improvements in our documentation, APIs, SDKs, and features

Requirements

  • Technical background or good understanding of Application Development and IT operations; familiarity with Identity and Authentication Management software, credentialing, and cybersecurity concepts a plus.
  • Hands-on technical experience deploying, configuring, or implementing software tools and products.
  • You find joy in serving the developer community and helping fellow developers get better at their jobs, with the ability to explain and translate complex technology concepts into simple and intuitive communications.
  • You are a strong independent contributor, but you enjoy collaborating with teammates and multi-functional teams.
  • You find a fast-paced, constantly iterative environment engaging and stimulating.
  • Travel requirement: 30% or more

Preferred

  • Experience working as a Developer Advocate, Developer Evangelist, Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Technical Customer Success Manager, or Technical Account Manager
  • Experience with at least one authentication or authorization protocol (OAuth, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP)
  • Understanding of core security concerns within a typical application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF)
  • Experience building web, mobile, and IoT applications, incorporating both front and back end languages/frameworks
  • Experience working with API architectures/technologies like REST and GraphQL. This includes the ability to use the dev tools in a browser to explain HTTP traffic and an HTTP client (like curl or Postman) to interact with an HTTP service
  • Experience running code sprints or technology workshops
  • Experience working with the startup and/or nonprofit sector(s)
  • Experience working with SaaS developers

Benefits

  • In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.
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Founded in 2009
San Francisco, California, USA
6.7K employees (499 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
175.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$318.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
10%
Direct
60.2%
Referral
27.9%
Social
0.2%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
370 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
4.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
13

Funding

Total Funding
$1.2B
Last Raise
$1B
Post IPO Equity, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2020
    Post IPO Equity • $1B
  • Mar 2017
    Secondary Market
  • Sep 2015
    Series F • $75M

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