Sr. OSS Developer Advocate, Valkey, Open Source Strategy and Marketing, Developer Experience

About the position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join the Open Source Strategy & Marketing team. Our creative, experienced organization is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of Valkey. In this role, you will combine your technical skills, passion, and creativity to encourage developers to use, improve, and evangelize Valkey. In the process, you'll nurture and grow the Valkey community and build influence with its key users and contributors.

Responsibilities

• Contribute regularly in the Valkey community, through direct engagement with developers, content, and code
• Triage and review contributions to Valkey
• Build and execute content strategies that encourage awareness and adoption of Valkey
• Promote Valkey and its community by creating valuable content for its users, current and future. This includes technical demos, videos, blog posts, podcasts, and livestreams.
• Authentically engage the broader developer community to understand their needs and advocate for Valkey
• Provide valuable community feedback to AWS service teams to help improve our products and services and advocate for community needs inside the service teams.
• Build relationships and represent the needs of community members, users, and partners
• Speak at industry and community events about Valkey
• Participate in online developer communities such as Stack Overflow, GitHub, Reddit
• Be active and visible in social media to stay positively connected to developers
• Connect and grow community through travel (including internationally when needed), with the flexibility to choose where and when you need to be
• Set your own goals and work autonomously to accomplish them

Requirements

• 8+ years working in a hands-on technical role in software development (backend or fullstack development), architecture, database administration, or operations (SRE, DevOps).
• Experience contributing to an open source project.
• Experience public speaking, content creation, and presentation skills (in person and online), and
• Experience working with technical communities.

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on knowledge and experience with Redis or Valkey.
• Understanding of NoSQL data modelling and distributed systems.
• Demonstrable following in social and technical channels such as Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, Twitch, or other local platforms.
• Experience managing and/or maintaining medium to large scale projects on GitHub.
• Success in nurturing, engaging with, and growing large open source projects.
• Track record of contributing to documentation and/or writing technical how-to content.
• Experience packaging software for RPM or Debian-based Linux Distributions.

Benefits

• 401k
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• dental_insurance
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• life_insurance
• disability_insurance
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• tuition_reimbursement
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• professional_development