Data Engineering Advocate

About MotherDuck

Don’t let the quirky name fool you! We’re on a mission to radically transform the data analyst user experience. We think we can empower and delight analysts using a novel cloud architecture built on top of DuckDB, an open source foundation with a vibrant community. 

Our team is a diverse mix of passionate, collaborative and empathetic data industry veterans from Google, Amazon, Meta, Snowflake, SingleStore, MongoDB, Confluent and Databricks.

What is a MotherDuck’ing advocate?

We’re building MotherDuck using DuckDB not only because it’s an amazing SQL engine, but also because of its passionate and engaged open source community. While the MotherDuck product is still in development (we’re rapidly driving towards our first release), we have an opportunity to grow DuckDB awareness and adoption in the data engineering and analyst  communities. 

You’ll empower data engineers and data analysts

We believe advocacy is about helping people solve their problems faster and with less pain, enabling them to sleep better knowing they love their work. You can help them by educating  them on how they can make their workflows easier, connecting them with other data engineers in the ecosystem, working with them to get their bugs and feature requests the attention they deserve, and giving them a platform to share their lessons learned and best practices. 

How you’ll accomplish this

Produce enlightening content, building an interactive audience

• Writing: blog posts, newsletters, docs, tutorials, etc.

• Videos: best practices, interviews, etc.

• Talks: data engineering and thought leadership.

• Samples: data analyses, integrations, etc.

Engage the community, helping them along the way

• Events: conferences, meetups

• Discussion: Slack, Discord, StackOverflow, Reddit, etc.

• Social: Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media

• 1:1: discussions with users and influencers, helping them with DuckDB and/or MotherDuck

What people should be saying if you’re doing ducking awesome

• Wow, those MotherDuck folks are super helpful.  I didn’t know DuckDB could do so easily!

• gave me great ideas on how to optimize my data pipelines.  Love how much expertise the MotherDuck folks have and how much they’re willing to help even though we’re not yet ready to move to DuckDB!

• The MotherDuck documentation is clear and concise, but also describes how to solve my   perfectly.  I wonder who wrote that tutorial?

• I really want to go to Coalesce this year. from MotherDuck is speaking and I always love their talks.

• I’m super stoked that the MotherDuck folks tweeted about my project.  Makes me feel loved.

• I watch the MotherDuck live stream every other week - they also interview really interesting guests with fascinating stories on data analytics and engineering.

These are just examples but should give you some ideas!  We’ll work together to come up with the exact projects that should be most effective for our shared goals. 

Requirements

• Knowledge of SQL.

• Experience building data pipelines and other hands-on data engineering skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on communicating technical topics.

• Experience with some data technologies like DuckDB, Parquet, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Spark, Kafka, BigQuery, dbt, FiveTran, Tableau, Superset, Looker, Power BI, Airflow, Dagster, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Redshift, Prefect, Jupyter notebooks, etc.

• Experience with one or more programming languages, like Python, Java, Go, C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Scala, or equivalent.

Nice to haves, but definitely not deal breakers

• Professional experience as a developer advocate

What we provide

• Competitive compensation and stock options

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees

• 80% paid medical, dental, and vision for dependents

• Unlimited Paid Time Off

• 401k plan

• Regular offsites in hub or exotic locations

• Geographically distributed team with hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, & Amsterdam

Please Apply

Does this role sound appealing to you, but you’re missing some of the requirements or don’t quite think you’re qualified?  Please apply anyway. Research has shown that underrepresented groups in technology often shy away from roles which aren’t a 100% match. We aim to build a diverse team and will strongly consider applicants who bring many of the requirements plus have other experiences which round out their qualifications.

MotherDuck is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. MotherDuck is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Compensation Range: $140K - $240K