Developer Relation Engineer (US, SF Bay Area)

SigNoz is an open source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry: logs, metrics and traces in one tool. It's designed for an era where agents and humans run observability together. We are a YC company with 32K+ GitHub stars. The role starts hands-on: you plan your own calendar, run the events and give the talks yourself. Once the motion reliably produces stories, community and pipeline, you can build a small US DevRel and field team around it.

Responsibilities

Find Bay Area customers with a story worth telling; Visit customers, interview their engineers and film technical videos and case studies on site; Turn customer relationships into references, quotes and talks that help sales close deals; Speak regularly at Bay Area meetups on OpenTelemetry, cloud native and Kubernetes, AI engineering, SRE and platform engineering; Host small, high-quality events such as engineering dinners, roundtables and SigNoz meetups; Represent SigNoz at conferences like KubeCon and SRECON and at AI meetups through talks, booths or side events; Host and present webinars with customers and engineers; Write or record technical content when the story needs a first-hand voice; Join Account Executive and Forward Deployed Engineer on customer visits when a technical talk or workshop will help; Bring customer and community feedback back to product and marketing

Requirements

3+ years as a software engineer, SRE, platform engineer, solutions engineer or developer advocate; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field; Enjoys explaining technical things to people and has some public proof (a talk, blog post, popular open source project, meetup organized, or customer-facing work); Comfortable on camera; Understands production systems such as Observability, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure or AI infrastructure; Able to run a demo, answer hard questions and write code when needed; Self-directed, builds own plan and calendar, follows up without being reminded and measures results; Enjoys meeting people; Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or will move here; Can travel about 20% of the time

Nice to have

Has given conference or meetup talks; Has organized or grown a meetup or developer community; Has done developer relations at a developer-tools or infrastructure startup; Has contributed to open source; Is already part of the Bay Area AI engineering scene

Benefits

Real product pull with thousands of teams using SigNoz; Work directly with the CEO, who is also based in the Bay Area; Build the US community function from the start, with budget and a clear path to leading it