Senior Developer Advocate

What you'll do 🧑‍💻

• Own events and speaking: Attend and deliver talks at developer and platform engineering conferences. Own the event strategy, build relationships with organizers, and partner with Sales on lead capture and follow-up. Expect ~30% travel.
• Drive content production: Own the pipeline from ideation to publication—technical blog posts, webinars, demo videos, case studies. Work with engineering for technical depth; you own the output.
• Embed in developer communities: Show up where platform engineers talk shop. Surface insights to Product and GTM weekly; turn community presence into inbound interest.
• Own docs and onboarding content: Ship improvements based on friction you discover. Docs are a conversion lever - you're accountable for their quality.

We're looking for 🔎

• 3-5+ years in developer advocacy/relations with hands-on engineering background
• Proven conference speaker (share links to recorded talks)
• Strong technical writer with published work that developers read & share (share samples)
• Community native with measurable reach (tell us where and how many)
• Metrics-driven: you've optimized content/events based on data, not vibesLived the pain of flaky tests, slow CI, or merge hell firsthand

Nice to have ℹ️

• Experience marketing to platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure teams
• Prior work at a dev tools company
• Existing relationships with conference organizers

What we offer 🎁

• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive salary and equity
• Work-life balance
• Lunch ordered in on us at the office on Wednesdays and Thursdays
• Few meetings, so you can ship fast and focus on building
• One Medical membership on us!
• Top-notch medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• All insurance is 100% company-paid ($0 premiums) for employees and highly subsidized for dependents
• FSA, HSA with company contributions, and pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401(k) plan
• Paid parental leave ( up to 12 weeks)

If interested:

• Please send some samples of your technical writing, tutorials, videos - can add as CV to your application.
• The salary and equity range for this role are: $140K - $190K and .1% - .3%.
• Please note that the compensation range provided is a general guideline only and is subject to change based on location, qualifications, and experience.

Our Interview Process ℹ️

• 45 Minute call with our Lead Recruiter to learn about your background, what you're looking for next, and talk about Trunk's GTM Team
• 1 Hour call with Hiring Manager/Head of GTM to go through your portfolio
• Demo Recording (async) - 5-minute demo of any dev tool
• 3 Hour Onsite Interview- meet with DevRel, Sales, Hiring Manager/Head of GTM, and our CEO