X Developer Platform – Forward Deployed Engineer, X API

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Enterprise customers to understand their business needs and rapidly build production-grade solutions, prototypes, integrations, and accelerators using the X API platform.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality sample applications, starter kits, reference implementations, and code examples for both Enterprise teams and Indie developers.
• Build, enhance, and ship developer experience tools such as SDKs, MCPs, CLIs, Sandbox/Test Environments, and other internal/external tooling.
• Research, write, and continuously improve comprehensive how-to guides, tutorials, cookbook recipes, technical blogs, and educational content — with emphasis on X API integrations, real-time data, AI Agents, LLMs, and emerging use cases.
• Obsess over every aspect of developer experience: continuously audit and elevate documentation, onboarding flows, code samples, and overall accessibility.
• Gather real-world feedback from customers and the broader developer community, advocate for their needs internally, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to influence roadmap.
• Diagnose complex technical issues, bugs, and edge cases; provide expert-level troubleshooting, workarounds, and long-term solutions.
• Streamline support processes and create scalable materials that close knowledge gaps.

Requirements

• Exceptional coding proficiency in two or more languages (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, etc.) with a proven track record of shipping production-quality software, sample apps, prototypes, and developer tools.
• Strong understanding of API design principles, REST/GraphQL, real-time streaming systems, authentication, and modern AI/agent workflows.
• Hands-on experience building developer-facing assets: sample applications, reference implementations, DevEx tools, and high-quality technical documentation/guides.
• Deep, genuine passion for developer experience (DevEx) — you instinctively identify friction and love removing it through better docs, tools, and accessible APIs.
• 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (partner engineering, solutions architecture, developer relations, forward-deployed engineering, or similar) working directly with enterprise customers.
• Ability to work comfortably and professionally with diverse stakeholders (software developers, product managers, technical executives, and business leaders).
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to scope, execute, and drive initiatives autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear, engaging documentation and presentations.
• Strong attention to detail and a solution-oriented mindset.

Nice-to-Haves

• Previous experience building or significantly contributing to developer platforms, tools, SDKs, interactive playgrounds, or educational content.
• Hands-on knowledge of AI/Agent frameworks, LLM integrations, or building AI-powered applications on top of data APIs.
• Industry experience in social media, enterprise software, data analytics, real-time/streaming data, or related spaces.
• Strong familiarity with Rust, Scala (ideally), or JVM-based programming languages.
• A public portfolio of sample apps, open-source contributions, technical blogs, guides, or DevEx tools.