Staff Developer Relations Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote within the United States, with an option to work from the San Francisco headquarters. Regular travel for conferences and events is expected.

Salary: $204K–$250K annually, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is building a developer-first cloud platform for AI-native, full-stack, and multi-service applications, with persistent compute, autoscaling, orchestration, and observability.

What you will do

• Represent hirify.global at conferences, meetups, hackathons, podcasts, livestreams, and developer communities through talks and live demos.
• Design and run hands-on workshops and hackathons, including curricula, technical setups, starter kits, and event support.
• Set the technical direction for Developer Relations, including community, ecosystem, and event priorities and quality standards.
• Build relationships with AI frameworks, agent tooling, and open-source partners; develop joint workshops, events, and integrations.
• Answer technical questions, debug deployments, support developers and startups, and conduct architecture reviews across GitHub, X, Discord, Reddit, and Hacker News.
• Turn field feedback into prioritized Product and Engineering input, track adoption and engagement impact, and raise the quality of DevRel talks and demos.

Requirements

• 8+ years in developer relations, solutions engineering, or software engineering, including at least 3 years in a developer-facing role at a developer tools, cloud, or infrastructure company.
• Track record of speaking at recognized developer conferences and designing and running workshops.
• Experience setting direction for a developer relations program, measuring results, and changing course based on outcomes.
• Hands-on fluency with AI agents, including tool calling, MCP servers, LLM APIs, and agent frameworks; ability to build an agent application live and explain production requirements such as long-running tasks, sandboxed execution, and retries.
• Engineering depth to deploy multi-service applications, read logs, trace failed deployments, and identify root causes in front of an audience.
• Working knowledge of containers and Docker, networking, CI/CD, environment configuration, and infrastructure as code.
• Daily use of coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and awareness of the evolving agent ecosystem.
• Examples of developer feedback that resulted in shipped product changes.
• Excellent spoken and written communication, including the ability to explain complex systems clearly to engineers.

Nice to have

• Existing relationships in AI framework, agent tooling, or open-source communities.
• An existing developer audience through talks, livestreams, a newsletter, or social media.
• Experience starting or growing in-person developer meetups.
• Experience with durable workflows, background job systems, or sandboxed code execution.
• Professional or side-project experience using hirify.global.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States, with regular travel for conferences and events; San Francisco headquarters access is available.
• Four weeks of paid vacation and 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• Employer-paid medical coverage, 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for an employee and dependent, plus FSA and HSA options.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) plans.
• Monthly lifestyle, cell phone, and internet subsidies; Bay Area commuter benefits and remote home-office stipends.
• Continuous learning benefits and support. The position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at hirify.global's discretion with business authorization.