Developer Advocate
Role Overview
The Developer Experience team at Diagrid is obsessed with making distributed applications radically simpler and more reliable for developers worldwide.
The team stewards the Dapr open-source project (CNCF) while driving adoption of Diagrid's commercial platform, Diagrid Catalyst, which brings production-grade reliability and security for AI agents.
The mission is to make AI agents reliable and secure for the Dapr and Diagrid community through demos, technical content, events, and tools.
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Who We Are
Diagrid provides developers with APIs and tools that help them focus on their code and not on infrastructure.
Diagrid is founded by the creators of the Dapr and KEDA open-source projects, who led user experience, design, and development of hyper-scale infrastructure cloud services at Microsoft.
Dapr has achieved graduated status within the CNCF, joining projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Istio.
Diagrid is backed by top VC firms and industry-leading investors and advisors including Joe Beda, Matt Klein, Mark Russinovich, William Morgan, Seth Vargo, Adam Gross, Sri Viswanath, Adam Frankl, and Roopak Venkatakrishnan.
About The Team
The Developer Experience team at Diagrid is obsessed with making distributed applications radically simpler and more reliable for developers worldwide.
The team stewards the Dapr open-source project (CNCF) while driving adoption of Diagrid's commercial platform, Diagrid Catalyst, which brings production-grade reliability and security for AI agents.
The mission is to make AI agents reliable and secure for the Dapr and Diagrid community through demos, technical content, events, and tools.
About The Role
As a Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will be the public face and community heartbeat of Dapr and Diagrid.
You will own community growth, content creation, and developer engagement end-to-end.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for someone who loves coding in public, building communities, and turning complex distributed systems and AI agent concepts into approachable experiences.
You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, and the broader open-source maintainer team.
What You'll Do
- Grow the Dapr OSS community by driving contributor growth, engagement, and adoption metrics across GitHub, Discord, and other channels.
- Moderate and nurture the Dapr Discord and future community platforms, answer technical questions, recognize contributors, and foster a welcoming, high-signal environment.
- Write high-quality blog posts for the Dapr blog and Diagrid Catalyst and produce tutorials, architectural guides, and sample applications showcasing Dapr and AI agents, workflows, state management, and service invocation.
- Proactively plan and deliver technical webinars, workshops, and live demos on a regular cadence.
- Own the Dapr/Diagrid YouTube channel by scripting, recording, editing, and publishing videos, demos, and recordings of community events.
- Help organize and host Dapr Meetups, Dapr Days, conference talks, and community events in the Bay Area and globally with travel as needed.
- Create sample applications, starters, and reference architectures that demonstrate best practices for Dapr in production and AI agent use cases.
- Act as the voice of the developer community by surfacing friction points, feature requests, and success stories to Engineering and Product teams.
- Speak at conferences, participate in podcasts, engage on social media such as X and LinkedIn, and be a trusted advocate for Dapr and Diagrid.
You Might Thrive in This Role If You
- Have prior Developer Relations, Developer Advocate, or Community Manager experience.
- Have 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, or microservices.
- Are deeply familiar with Dapr or similar projects like Temporal, Camunda, or Orkes and excited about its future in the AI agent era.
- Love creating content and have a track record of blogs, videos, talks, or open-source contributions that gained traction.
- Excel at community building, having moderated Discords or Slack, grown OSS projects, or run successful meetup groups.
- Are a strong communicator who can explain complex topics such as stateful workflows, actor models, sidecar architecture, and LLM orchestration clearly and enthusiastically.
- Enjoy shipping code publicly and building demos with Python, Go, TypeScript, or .NET.
- Thrive in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and evolving priorities.
- Are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nice-to-Haves
- Speaking experience at conferences such as KubeCon or Microsoft Build.
- Experience with AI agents, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or workflow orchestration.
- Existing relationships in the cloud-native or AI developer communities.
Diagrid Benefits
- Competitive compensation and company equity.
- Remote first and flexible work environment.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Comprehensive healthcare for you and your dependents.
- Choice of hardware, $1000 for home office setup, and monthly WFH stipend.
- Team events and gatherings.
- Chance to collaborate with industry-leading figures.
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