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Senior Developer Relations Advocate
Collate is the company behind OpenMetadata, the unified platform for discovery, observability, and governance. It is one of the fastest-growing open-source projects, with a vibrant community and adoption by global Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups. Based on open metadata standards and APIs, with connectors for a wide range of data services, OpenMetadata enables end-to-end metadata management and helps data teams deliver high quality data and AI assets. We’re backed by Unusual Ventures, with an experienced leadership team from Uber, Yahoo, Mozilla, and Databricks.
Collate is the creator of the fast growing open source OpenMetadata project, and we’re passionate about transforming the way data teams work together. Collate founders were the creators of Apache Hadoop, Apache Atlas, and Uber Databook, and previously founded and IPO’d Hortonworks. We are on a mission to help every company realize the fullest potential of data through open source, AI Agents, and unified metadata, by solving problems around data discovery, observability and governance that current data catalogs and quality tools fail to address.
Work
As a Senior Developer Relations Advocate, your mission is to work with the team to make OpenMetadata the open source standard for data teams.
What you'll be doing
- Build open source success: Deliver a first class open source experience to the community of users, contributors, and future Collate customers through their maturity journey.
- Drive community growth: Grow GitHub stars, Slack community members, online community meeting attendance, website testimonials.
- Build technical content: Technical blog posts, how-to videos, product demos, deployment guides, training material, documentation, tutorials, sample code repos, architectures, etc.
- Engage with community: Actively answer Slack questions and support committers, participate in Reddit r/DataEngineering, present at practitioner conferences, attend customer meetups and user groups, manage the monthly online community meetings, post on social media
- Carry the voice of the practitioner: Bring back feedback from the practitioner to help inform open source and commercial product feature development, updates to documentation, discussions with the engineering team, etc.
What you bring
- Experience: 2+ years of experience as a data engineer, with subject matter knowledge of solving data engineering problems at all scales.
- Community: Experience building, scaling, and managing developer communities, user groups, and meetups for global audiences.
- Communication & Content: Strong communication skills with experience building technical content and teaching technical topics.
- Culture fit: Collaborative, supportive team player, who can independently drive projects and focus on the needs of our customers.
- Ideal: Developer Relations / Sales Engineering / Technical Product Marketing experience.
- Ideal: Experience working with and contributing to open source communities, particularly for data engineering projects
Benefits
- Competitive salary and early stage startup equity
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance to keep you and your family healthy.
- Remote first work force with employees internationally, headquartered in SF Bay Area.
- Flexible time off.
- Company offsites and team events.
- Work with smart, motivated, like-minded peers, whom you can teach and learn from to grow together.
- You'll be joining a small team with no bureaucracy or politics and get to work directly with the founders.
To prioritize your application, write an email to us at  career@getcollate.io. Yes, we go through all the emails sent here.