# Senior Developer Relations Engineer

**Company:** [Trail of Bits](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/trail-of-bits)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Developer Relations
**Salary:** $160k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Application Security, Open Source, Security Research, Ai/Ml Security, Agentic Tooling, Mcp Servers, Cryptography, Blockchain, Rust, Python, Technical Writing, Public Speaking, Developer Documentation, Security Analyzers, GitHub
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> This role amplifies security research and open-source tooling through community relationships, technical content, events, workshops, and maintainer collaboration. It requires deep hands-on security experience, a public technical track record, practical agentic-tooling experience, and strong writing and speaking skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with security practitioners, researchers, maintainers, and open-source communities.
- Attend and speak at relevant cybersecurity conferences and meetups, and establish a baseline event presence.
- Support open-source projects and maintainers through technical office hours, upstream contributions, and ongoing relationship management.
- Turn research and releases into reusable advisories, co-authored write-ups, guidance, workshops, and hands-on sessions.
- Publish deep dives, tutorials, and technical write-ups under your own name.
- Identify conference and CFP opportunities, and help engineers prepare and deliver talks.
- Run published tools and research against unfamiliar code and provide feedback to engineering teams.
- Improve project onboarding, documentation, examples, integrations, skills, plugins, and first-run experiences.
- Attract external contributors and help them make repeat contributions.
- Share community feedback with the firm, including practitioner needs, research gaps, and emerging ecosystems.

## Requirements
- Hands-on experience building software people use, such as a tool, library, integration, skill, or agent.
- Ability to read unfamiliar code, run security analyzers, and contribute pull requests that are accepted upstream.
- Typically seven or more years of deep, hands-on security experience.
- Practical experience with agentic tooling, including skills, agents, MCP servers, harnesses, or evaluations.
- A public body of work, such as talks, posts, upstream contributions, research, or documentation.
- Credibility within security and open-source communities.
- Strong technical writing and public-speaking skills.
- Ability to make and defend priorities independently in ambiguous situations.
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the year.

## Nice to Have
- Meaningful experience maintaining or contributing to an open-source project.
- Depth in application security, blockchain and cryptography, AI/ML security, or low-level systems research.
- Experience running or programming a community venue at meaningful scale.
- Contributions to developer documentation maintained alongside and shipped with code.
- Involvement with open-source foundations, grant programs, or maintainer-facing initiatives.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $160,000–$200,000.
- Eligible for annual bonuses and benefits.

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