Open Source Developer Advocate - Apache Iceberg, Open Source Strategy and Marketing

Description

We are looking for an Open Source Developer Advocate to be AWS’s presence in the Iceberg community: a credible, hands-on technical voice who earns trust through contribution and turns that trust into influence. You will be the two-way bridge, representing AWS to the Iceberg community while channeling community signal, ecosystem context, and customer needs back to our engineering, product, and marketing teams.
This is a role for someone who wants to build community standing that matters. Your work will lay the foundation for AWS engineers to participate more actively in the project and to be recognized as a genuine leader in one of the most important open source projects in modern data infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities
Represent AWS in the community. Be an active, opinionated participant in Iceberg community channels, mailing lists, and core specification discussions. Build the credibility and relationships needed to influence how the project evolves.
Build contributor credibility. Participate in the project, shepherd work through the community review process, and build toward committer and PMC recognition.
Create content and evangelize. Publish blogs, tutorials, and samples, and show up at the Iceberg Summit, meetups, and conferences with hands-on talks and workshops that demonstrate AWS’s Iceberg leadership.
Amplify releases and milestones. Partner with engineering and DevRel to turn changelogs, spec progress, and feature launches (for example V3 support, multi-table transactions, and performant merge-on-read) into launch stories across community and social channels.
Grow ecosystem partnerships. Build collaborative relationships with friendly partners and vendors (for example Snowflake and Netflix) to proactively help move the project forward and to strengthen AWS’s collective voice in governance.
Be the community’s voice inside AWS. Bring developer pain points, specification direction, and ecosystem opportunities into AWS roadmap conversations. Partner with product marketing to keep positioning grounded in how developers actually talk about Iceberg.
Set the strategy. Define community health and influence metrics (committers earned, PRs merged, specification working groups joined, community relationships built) and evolve the playbook as AWS’s standing in the project grows.

About the team
About the Team

The Open Source Strategy and Marketing (OSSM) team includes veterans from top open source companies and foundations alongside passionate newcomers. We help AWS service teams effectively engage with open source communities, media, analysts, and customers—increasing the scope of our open source involvement and helping people understand why it matters.

How You'll Work

You'll own the community function for Kiro Crew: setting direction, bringing proposals, not waiting for assignments. You'll partner closely with engineering, product, and product marketing: leaning on them for technical depth and roadmap context, while bringing them community signal, ecosystem context, and amplification. You'll also coordinate with developer advocacy on events, content, and partner work.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience writing technical articles, speaking at technology conferences, and contributing to open source
- 6+ years of professional experience in developer advocacy, developer relations, open source community management, or technical evangelism
- Hands-on experience with data lake, data lakehouse, or analytics technologies (for example Apache Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Trino, or comparable systems)
- Experience contributing to or actively engaging with open source projects and their communities

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
- Experience communicating results to senior leadership, or experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions
- Direct experience with Apache Iceberg or the broader data lakehouse ecosystem
- Established standing in an Apache Software Foundation, CNCF, or comparable open source community
- Committer or PMC (Project Management Committee) experience on an Apache or similarly governed project
- Familiarity with the Iceberg ecosystem across Spark, Flink, Trino, PyIceberg, and Iceberg Rust
- Experience building or running a DevRel program in partnership with engineering and product marketing
- Existing relationships across Iceberg vendors and partners (for example Snowflake, Netflix, and others in the ecosystem)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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