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Senior Developer Relations Engineer Jobs in New York

Spiral

Developer Relations Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

The Role This is our first DevRel hire, and it is a content and developer-experience role. You'll own the material that teaches researchers and training engineers how to get real work done with ...

Koah Labs Inc.

Developer Relations

Manhattan, NY · On-site

The Role As Developer Relations at Koah, you will help developers discover Koah and build developer support for native ads monetization. You will be the hands-on technical voice for Koah in the ...

Koah Labs

Developer Relations

New York, NY · On-site

The Role As Developer Relations at Koah, you will help developers discover Koah and build developer support for native ads monetization. You will be the hands-on technical voice for Koah in the ...

Runlayer

Developer Relations Lead

New York, NY · On-site

$64.50 - $84.50/hr

Invent, AI Engineer World's Fair, MCP Dev Summit, RSA, and others * Run DevRel events: meetups ... You can hold your own in a room with senior engineers and have written code at some point in your ...

CoreWeave

Director, Developer Relations

Livingston, NJ · On-site

$165K - $242K/yr

The Director of Developer Relations builds, engages, and grows a technical community around the ... senior engineers and researchers. * Proven track record of building, scaling, and activating ...

IBM

Quantum Developer Relations Lead

New York, NY · On-site

$64.50 - $84.50/hr

Developer Relations succeeds through influence. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Research, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and IBM Quantum Network teams to align ...

Unleash

Senior Developer Advocate

New York, NY · On-site +1

$250K/yr

You have genuine experience in Developer Relations: you've spoken at conferences, produced ... Experience level: Senior Individual Contributor, 10+ years across software engineering and ...

Tenex

Developer Relations

Manhattan, NY · On-site

Engineer who wants to become a creator * Experience in Developer Relations * Content creator who wants to go all-in on AI building * SME who wants to become known as the AI expert in your industry We ...

Tenex

Developer Relations

New York, NY · On-site

Engineer who wants to become a creator * Experience in Developer Relations * Content creator who wants to go all-in on AI building * SME who wants to become known as the AI expert in your industry We ...

LogRocket, Inc

Developer Relations

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$155K - $265K/yr

This role is scoped at Sr. or Staff Engineer level depending on experience. LogRocket is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment ...

Cervin

Developer Relations

Manhattan, NY · On-site

Become a Coast subject matter expert and help make every developer touchpoint world-class. * Write technical content including tutorials, guides, and example use cases. * Create and maintain ...

VAST Data

Developer Relations/Advocate

Manhattan, NY · Remote

Background in software development, developer relations, advocacy, or technical evangelism * Public speaking with proven experience presenting technical content * Strong technical writing skills with ...

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What is a senior developer relations engineer?

A Senior Developer Relations Engineer is a technical professional who bridges the gap between a company’s engineering teams and external developers or technical communities. They advocate for developers' needs, create technical content, support community engagement, and help improve products by relaying developer feedback to product teams. In addition to coding, they often deliver talks, write documentation, and build sample apps to demonstrate product capabilities. Their role is crucial in fostering a vibrant developer ecosystem and driving product adoption.

How does a senior developer relations engineer balance technical advocacy with community engagement responsibilities?

A Senior Developer Relations Engineer often splits their time between creating technical content—such as sample code, tutorials, or demos—and actively engaging with developer communities through events, forums, and social media. Balancing these aspects requires strong time management and the ability to prioritize high-impact outreach activities while staying current with the company's products. Common challenges include managing travel or event schedules, aligning with internal product teams, and ensuring community feedback is relayed effectively. Collaboration is key, as this role frequently works with engineering, marketing, and product management teams to drive adoption and improve developer experiences.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a senior developer relations engineer?

A Senior Developer Relations Engineer should have strong software development experience, a deep understanding of APIs and developer tools, and typically a degree in computer science or a related field. Familiarity with programming languages, cloud platforms, documentation tools, and content management systems is essential, along with experience using or supporting open-source projects. Exceptional communication, community engagement, and problem-solving skills set top candidates apart by enabling them to connect with and support developer communities effectively. These skills are crucial for fostering adoption, gathering feedback, and building trust between developers and the organization.

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Developer Relations Engineer

Manhattan, NY • On-site

Spiral
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Job description

About Spiral

Spiral builds a fast analytical database for multimodal, multi-rate data streams, on top of the open source Vortex file format. Our users are AI/ML researchers and AI infra engineers developing models in complex domains, such as weather & climate, financial, time-series, genomics, point-clouds, videos, and images. They spend their days waiting on data loaders, writing video or sensor data pipelines, and watching expensive GPUs sit idle on I/O. We make that pain go away.

We're small, technical, and early. The way we win researchers & developers is by being useful to serious practitioners.

The Role

This is our first DevRel hire, and it is a content and developer-experience role. You'll own the material that teaches researchers and training engineers how to get real work done with Spiral: cookbooks, worked examples, benchmarks, and reference pipelines grounded in datasets people actually train on. You might also conduct research on new applications of the core Spiral product.

You'll collaborate with the rest of the team to create the tightest possible feedback loop between developers/researchers and our product and docs. The job is to earn credibility with a technical audience by shipping things that are genuinely good.

What you’ll do

  • Write technical cookbooks and end-to-end examples — video ingestion, GPU data loading for training, multimodal feature engineering — that a researcher can run and immediately understand.

  • Build and maintain reference pipelines against real datasets (such as those on Hugging Face), and keep them working as the product moves.

  • Produce credible benchmarks and the honest writeups that go with them.

  • Be the developer's advocate internally: turn friction you and users hit into concrete product, client SDKs (e.g. pyspiral), and docs improvements.

  • Answer real questions in the places our users already are (GitHub, community channels, conferences), and turn recurring ones into permanent docs.

  • Represent Spiral at conferences.

  • Give the occasional talk or workshop.

Who you are

  • You've done ML or training-infrastructure work yourself, and you've personally felt the data-loading / video-decode / GPU-utilization pain we remove.

  • You write well about technical things. You can point us to things you've written.

  • You're fluent in Python and comfortable in the PyTorch / Hugging Face / data-pipeline ecosystem.

  • You have a working mental model of GPUs, training loops, and where the bottlenecks actually are.

  • You are well connected in developer and/or AI communities.

Nice to have

  • Open-source contributions in relevant territory (PyTorch data / DataLoader, HF datasets, Ray Data, video/decode tooling, or similar).

  • Experience with columnar / analytical data formats.

  • An existing audience among ML practitioners — welcome, but genuinely secondary to the credibility above.

  • Prior DevRel, AI research, or research-engineering experience.

What this role is not

  • Not a social-media-growth or "personal brand" role

  • Not primarily events and evangelism

  • Not marketing-with-a-little-code. This is engineering-grade technical work.

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