Senior Developer Advocate (Data Observability)

TL;DR

Senior Developer Advocate (Data Observability): Enabling hirify.global's community to build better software with a focus on data observability. Focus on creating content, coaching internal teams, and identifying community-focused opportunities to establish trust with practitioners.

Location: Remote (California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Washington, USA)

Salary: $194,000 — $237,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a global SaaS business delivering growth and profitability, focused on breaking down silos and solving complexity in the cloud age.

What you will do

• Act as a subject matter expert for data observability.
• Create content to build hirify.global's reputation as a leader in data engineering and observability.
• Partner with and coach internal product and customer engineering teams on effective public communication.
• Contribute to the product through feedback and enhancement suggestions.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for events, programs, and community-focused work.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a software developer, data engineer, SRE, or other practitioner building and maintaining production systems.
• 3+ years of experience in advocacy, developer relations, or equivalent experience reaching technical audiences.
• Publicly available writing samples, demos, repositories, or recordings of technical presentations.
• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure and container-based systems.
• Comfortable working in at least one programming language commonly used in data systems (e.g., Python, Scala, Java, or Go), along with strong SQL skills.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting data pipelines for ML or AI systems.
• Meaningful contributions to open source or shared technical tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds (employee resource groups).
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive global benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits.
• 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.