Sr Open Source Developer Advocate - Valkey

Do you love getting hands-on with software and sharing your enthusiasm for NoSQL databases with the wider tech community?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join the Open Source Strategy & Marketing team. Our creative, experienced, and energetic organization is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of Valkey.

In this role, you’ll combine your technical skills, passion, and creativity to generate grass-roots attention and support for Valkey among key industry innovators and technologists.

Ideally, you’re someone who comes from a software development, database, or SRE background; but you love to be on stage or on screen guiding the community towards technologies that you believe in.

You have immediate credibility with startups, developers, architects, and technology leaders. You’re excited about open source software and NoSQL databases.

You love to share your passion with others and you exhibit judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.

This Developer Advocate role will have substantial travel to connect with the Valkey community. Between travel, you’ll interact with community actively on GitHub by reviewing and commenting on code, contributing to the Valkey docs, and by creating written content in the public on the Valkey website.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success.

AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities

Creating and maintaining relevant content (demos, videos, blogs, podcasts, livestreams, etc), covering Valkey along with emerging technologies and industry developments.

Gaining industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee and speaker at third party technology conferences, shows and press events.

Curating, developing and delivering compelling presentations to help drive awareness and adoption of Valkey.

Maintaining a credible presence in social media

Ability to travel (including internationally when needed) and ability to work autonomously

A day in the life

As an influencer, you'll use your unique personality and authentic content to help attract contributors and users to Valkey and keep them engaged and inspired to build.

As a part of the Valkey open source project, you'll engage with Builders to identify and anticipate user challenges. You will represent the voice of Builders with internal service teams and leverage the data you gathered from the community to help influence the project.

As an ambassador, you'll build long-term relationships with members of the Valkey community. You'll work with others in the Valkey community to identify areas to engage, amplify the materials and resources you create, and identify areas of improvement in Valkey's public content.

About the team

The Open Source Strategy and Marketing (OSSM - pronounced awesome ) team includes veterans that have worked for some of the industry’s top open source companies and foundations.

Based on this open source experience, we help service teams, the field, and others effectively engage with open source constituencies : project communities, media and analysts, and social media.

Our mission is to help AWS deliver on two, tightly linked objectives : 1) to significantly increase the scope and value of our open source involvement and 2) to help customers and communities learn about our involvement and understand why it matters.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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.

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.

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.

Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Atlanta, GA, USA Austin, TX, USA Boston, MA, USA Chicago, IL, USA Denver, CO, USA New York, NY, USA Portland, OR, USA San Francisco, CA, USA Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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.