Staff Developer Advocate - Community & Events

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$210K/yr – $284K/yrSenior Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the developer audience and event engine with Bay Area focus, turning on-stage presence, meetups, and hackathons into product insights and engagement.

  • Growth through developer communities: plan and host events that build awareness and authentic engagement.
  • Content-to-insight cycle: translate events into tutorials, blogs, and demos while feeding product and strategy with developer feedback.
  • Cross-functional storytelling: align DevRel, PMM, and Product to keep developer narratives consistent and credible.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive awareness of LiveKit with new developer audiences, especially in the Bay Area where there is a significant opportunity to grow our presence.
  • Plan, host, and participate in events including meetups, hackathons, developer workshops, and conferences.
  • Partner with Marketing to amplify events through digital channels, ensuring broader reach and sustained impact.
  • Create content from events (recaps, demos, tutorials, blogs, social posts) to expand engagement beyond the room.
  • Serve as a feedback loop for the company, bringing back developer perspectives, industry trends, and emerging patterns to inform our product and community strategy.
  • Represent LiveKit on stage and in community forums, speaking authentically to developer audiences about our technology.
  • Help experiment with new event formats and engagement tactics, testing what resonates most with our audience.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with DevRel, PMM, and Product to ensure developer narratives are consistent, compelling, and authentic.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in Developer Advocacy, Developer Relations, or Technical Evangelism, with a strong emphasis on events and community engagement.
  • Comfortable being outward-facing—you enjoy speaking to groups, hosting sessions, and building relationships in developer communities.
  • Strong technical communication skills; you can explain complex concepts in clear, engaging ways across presentations and written content.
  • Hands-on technical background (comfortable writing code samples, running demos, or building prototypes).
  • Experience planning and executing developer events (e.g., meetups, hackathons, workshops, or conference tracks).
  • Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with willingness to travel for conferences and events.
  • Strong collaborator who can work cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, and Engineering.
  • Curious and empathetic—you love learning what matters most to developers and bringing those insights back to the team.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Work anywhere in the world
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LiveKit

LiveKit offers open source frameworks and a cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents.

Founded in 2021
77 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
479.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48%
Direct
42.7%
Referral
7%
Social
1.5%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~79

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$181.3M
Last Raise
$100M
Series C, 2 months ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2026
    Series C • $100M
  • Apr 2025
    Series B • $45M
  • Mar 2024
    Series A • $22M