Developer Advocate - Neon

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Are you a charismatic application developer advocate at heart, someone who excels in bringing the community together, loves hosting and presenting at events, and has deep technical expertise in application development?

As a Databricks Developer Advocate on the Neon DevRel team, you'll be a crucial link between our engineering teams and the broad community of application developers building their projects on Postgres and Neon. This role will leverage your technical expertise to support, inspire, and educate our growing user base, with a focus on engaging developers already using Neon.

Your responsibilities will center on community engagement and encompass a wide range of knowledge-sharing activities. You'll deliver engaging talks, host insightful meetups and community calls, create informative blogs and video content, share best practices in community forums, and highlight developer success stories. These efforts will not only inspire but also support the Neon community, helping developers grow their skills and build more effectively with Neon, turning their experiences into lasting advocacy.

Community engagement will be at the heart of your role. You'll work closely with the neon.com community and our product and engineering teams, ensuring that developer needs and product development stay aligned. You will collaborate with fellow advocates and program managers, and partner with the broader Databricks DevRel org, to create and execute a cohesive and impactful community strategy.

The ideal candidate will embody the values of our Developer Relations team : a passion for application development, genuine empathy for developer needs, and strong communication skills to explain our products clearly and effectively.

You'll use your skills to educate and grow the Neon community, creating technical content and experiences that empower developers. At the same time, you'll gather and share community feedback to continuously improve the developer experience.

More about the Neon DevRel team

Neon is Databricks' product-led growth Serverless Postgres and BaaS platform, built with the vision of helping developers ship faster. Delivering on this mission depends on building trust and recognition within a growing community of application developers, while also serving the broader Databricks user base.

The neon.com DevRel team at Databricks is focused on building and strengthening relationships with application developers, while also expanding its reach into areas like code generation and AI-driven development. Our primary goal is to drive awareness, enablement, and driving community of the neon.com platform through a product-led growth motion.

The impact you will have

• Create user-focused content that helps Neon users discover new features, solve real problems, and grow their skills on the platform.
• Drive adoption and excitement not just by speaking at events, but by engaging with the community, building connections, and strengthening a shared sense of belonging.
• Produce educational and community-focused assets : videos, tutorials, sample projects, blog posts, and resources driven by community feedback and questions.
• Expand and engage the Neon community through conference presence and online spaces (e.g., Discord).
• Collaborate with product and engineering to surface insights from the community and ensure developer needs influence roadmap decisions.
• Create and manage programs that deepen engagement, such as creator and ambassador initiatives, open source collaborations, and other developer-focused movements.
• Actively gather, analyze, and amplify community feedback to continuously improve Neon's product experience and developer journey.

What we look for

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Zone 1 Pay Range

$140,000-$172,175 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide - including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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