Open Source Developer Advocate, Apache Iceberg, Open Source Strategy & Marketing

Responsibilities

• Represent AWS in the community. Be an active, opinionated participant in Iceberg community channels, mailing lists, and core specification discussions. Build the credibility and relationships needed to influence how the project evolves.
• Build contributor credibility. Participate in the project, shepherd work through the community review process, and build toward committer and PMC recognition.
• Create content and evangelize. Publish blogs, tutorials, and samples, and show up at the Iceberg Summit, meetups, and conferences with hands-on talks and workshops that demonstrate AWS’s Iceberg leadership.
• Amplify releases and milestones. Partner with engineering and DevRel to turn changelogs, spec progress, and feature launches (for example V3 support, multi-table transactions, and performant merge-on-read) into launch stories across community and social channels.
• Grow ecosystem partnerships. Build collaborative relationships with friendly partners and vendors (for example Snowflake and Netflix) to proactively help move the project forward and to strengthen AWS’s collective voice in governance.
• Be the community’s voice inside AWS. Bring developer pain points, specification direction, and ecosystem opportunities into AWS roadmap conversations. Partner with product marketing to keep positioning grounded in how developers actually talk about Iceberg.
• Set the strategy. Define community health and influence metrics (committers earned, PRs merged, specification working groups joined, community relationships built) and evolve the playbook as AWS’s standing in the project grows

Requirements

• Experience writing technical articles, speaking at technology conferences, and contributing to open source
• 6+ years of professional experience in developer advocacy, developer relations, open source community management, or technical evangelism
• Hands-on experience with data lake, data lakehouse, or analytics technologies (for example Apache Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Trino, or comparable systems)
• Experience contributing to or actively engaging with open source projects and their communities

Preferred

• Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership, or experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions
• Direct experience with Apache Iceberg or the broader data lakehouse ecosystem
• Established standing in an Apache Software Foundation, CNCF, or comparable open source community
• Committer or PMC (Project Management Committee) experience on an Apache or similarly governed project
• Familiarity with the Iceberg ecosystem across Spark, Flink, Trino, PyIceberg, and Iceberg Rust
• Experience building or running a DevRel program in partnership with engineering and product marketing
• Existing relationships across Iceberg vendors and partners (for example Snowflake, Netflix, and others in the ecosystem)

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parential leave