Developer Relations Engineer

About the job

If you’re passionate about:

• Helping upskill developers and data engineers in the principles, practices, and tools that they need to be successful in data engineering for AI
• Building a community of developers and data engineers across both end user and business partners who are excited to push the frontiers of Retrieval Augmented Generation, LLM integration, and multimodal AI
• Boiling down complex topics into accessible, digestible content to drive awareness and adoption
• Working with people who value passion, creativity, curiosity, initiative, and thoughtfulness
• Then this is your opportunity to join an early-stage, fast-growing, and well-funded startup to shape the course of an entire industry

Datavolo has a championship workplace culture. We are committed to absolute excellence and we provide a work environment that fosters and inspires everyone to that same standard.These are some of the key hiring characteristics we look for in our employees:

• Intellectual Aptitude
• We want to work with the best and the brightest minds. The opportunity to work with people of great intellectual capacity raises the bar and inspires
• Intense Curiosity
• This aptitude has to have the humility to understand we live in a constantly dynamic and evolving world. We want people that are intensely curious and hungry to learn
• Team First
• Our success is contingent on the success of others – beginning with our customers and extending to our teammates. We want people that want to see the team and company succeed just as much as themselves
• Big Engines
• We are a startup! While we will maintain healthy work/life balances, we have an exciting and timebound opportunity in front of us. We need teammates that are energized and enthusiastic and want to dive in deep and truly love the work that we are doing
• Extreme Ownership
• We are builders. Extreme ownership is taking absolute responsibility for everything that impacts your or your team's mission. This includes not only successes but also failures. We expect this from all employees.

About Datavolo

Datavolo is a tool for data engineers supporting AI teams. It provides a framework and a catalog of repeatable patterns to build multimodal data pipelines which are secure, simple, and scalable. Data engineers need tools to build multimodal pipelines across the continuum of foundational model integration and customization and Datavolo’s mission is to make them successful. Datavolo supports data and AI engineers across the continuum of in-context learning from prompt engineering to advanced RAG to agent API integration.

As a Developer Relations Engineer at Datavolo, you will be responsible for creating educational content that reflects Datavolo's innovation and serves not only our community of practitioners, but the data engineering community at large. You will bring your experience in the data and AI space to bear not only on our product, but on current needs and future predictions about the industry as a whole. You will inform how Datavolo can ever-better serve our developers, customers, and partners now and in the future.

Job Responsibilities

• Driving awareness and adoption of Datavolo throughout the data engineering and developer and partner community
• Uncovering the common issues self-serve users face in Datavolo, and create content such as tutorials, example notebooks, docs guides, or videos to help them through those issues
• Engaging with users on the Datavolo forums, on social channels, and in hackathons to answer common questions and help them get started with Datavolo
• Scale outreach via videos, blog posts, tutorials, and educational training
• Create demos for use at first-party and third-party events and courses
• Create tutorials and examples for the community and Datavolo customers and partners

Skills & Experience

• 2+ year of developer relations experience
• 3+ years of experience in a technical role such as software engineering, solutions engineering, or machine learning
• 3+ years of experience in an external facing role or equivalent experience through community or open source contributions
• Familiarity with data pipelines, orchestration, ELT/ETL
• Familiarity with the modern AI stack: LLMs, vector databases, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Superb written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel 10–20% of the year throughout the US for events
• (Preferred, not required) Existing social media presence (YouTube, etc.) or an interest in creating one

Job Benefits

• Company Paid Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Working with an incredible team in an incredibly dynamic and exciting market space!