Rust Developer Advocate

TL;DR

Rust Developer Advocate: Enhancing user experience and productivity by explaining how products enhance developer productivity in the Rust space and advising product teams based on industry trends and developer feedback. Focus on applying software engineering best practices, building relationships with global and regional communities, and contributing to product development.

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Berlin, Germany; Boston, Massachusetts; London, United Kingdom; Munich, Germany

Company

hirify.global makes industry-leading professional IDEs and team software.

What you will do

• Draw attention to and explain various aspects of our product portfolio through speaking, videos, blog posts, livestreams, and sample code.
• Build and maintain relationships and reputation in the industry, with global and regional communities, and on social media.
• Work with product teams to provide feedback.
• Meet with customers to listen to them and educate them about our offerings.
• Speak to the press on behalf of our product offerings.
• Contribute as needed to other areas within hirify.global.

Requirements

• Applied experience with software engineering best practices: testing, refactoring, version control, logging, tracing, debugging, etc.
• Experience with Rust and the ecosystem surrounding the technology.
• Hands-on experience with developing distributed systems or backend applications in Rust with asynchronous runtimes (such as Tokio).
• Passion for applying various AI-enabled styles of software development.
• Fluency in both spoken and written English.
• Excellent communication skills, especially the ability to tell a compelling story about a given technology.
• Self-organizational, goal-setting, and time-management skills.
• A willingness to travel.

Nice to have

• An established reputation in a development community.
• Experience with hirify.global tools.
• Experience in developer advocacy.
• Proficiency in several programming languages (C, C++, Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.).
• Deep understanding of one of the industry sectors: cloud providers and internet infrastructure, fintech, blockchain, web3, and cybersecurity.
• Background working in an environment with highly distributed, diverse teams.