Senior Developer Experience Advocate
This senior developer experience role helps data practitioners use dbt and Fivetran tools through prototypes, tooling, technical content, community engagement, and product feedback. It requires 5+ years in data or analytics engineering, strong dbt, Python, and SQL expertise, public communication skills, and autonomous execution.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and build prototypes, reference implementations, and example repositories demonstrating how practitioners use dbt, Fivetran connector SDK, and related tools.
- Create prototypes that validate product direction and accelerate engineering iteration.
- Build tooling that reduces friction in analytics engineering workflows.
- Author technical content for developer blogs, guides, and documentation.
- Publish data and analytics engineering knowledge and best practices.
- Develop enablement resources for internal teams and the dbt Community, and support product launches as a subject matter expert.
- Represent the product area across Community Slack, GitHub, conferences, and public forums.
- Collect and synthesize community feedback for product and engineering teams.
- Identify developer-experience sharp edges, regressions, and gaps.
- Maintain and triage open-source repositories and community projects, including code and design reviews.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a closely related field.
- Hands-on dbt knowledge and practitioner-level fluency.
- Strong spoken and written technical communication skills, with published data or analytics engineering content.
- Strong data and analytics engineering fundamentals, including Python, SQL, and open-source contribution experience.
- Familiarity with AI and enthusiasm for incorporating AI into work.
- Ability to work autonomously, set priorities, communicate clearly, and deliver high-quality work with minimal direction.
- Strong product sense and ability to translate user needs into concrete product feedback.
- Interest in public-facing developer experience work.
Nice-to-haves
- Existing dbt Community presence or prior hands-on use of dbt tools.
- Developer relations, developer experience, or developer advocacy experience at a developer-tools company.
- Experience building with or for AI coding agents.
- Open-source contributions in the data ecosystem, including packages, adapters, or community tools.
- Public speaking at data or developer conferences.
- Experience with dbt Fusion and the dbt platform.
Compensation & Benefits
- ATS-listed compensation range: $142,050–$177,562 USD annually.
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance.
- Generous paid time off.
Skills
dbt, Fivetran Connector Sdk, Python, SQL, AI, Ai Coding Agents, Open Source, GitHub, Community Slack, Dbt Fusion, Dbt Platform, Analytics Engineering
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