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Lagos |
Posted 8 months ago |
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Developer, Relations Engineer
Location: Lagos
Description
- We have created a new Developer Relations team to engage directly with open source communities and developer-centric organisations. We hope both to communicate our vision and products for better open source development experiences, and also to have a better feedback loop from those audiences to shape our offerings and priorities.
- A Developer Relations Engineer is a technical expert, strategist and communicator with deep empathy for developers. This discipline combines practical engineering skills with firm diplomacy across organisational boundaries, in both directions.
- Like our audience, a Developer Relations Engineer is never satisfied with the status quo, and is driven by an insatiable curiosity to find better ways to get things done.
- They are problem-solvers and inventors, who understand people’s needs and love the way that tools can be adapted to meet them.
- They stay current with tech trends and provide insights and guidance while fostering innovation.
Responsibilities
What your day will look like:
- Contribute to product management team meetings
- Maintain conversations with developer community members
- Engage on IRC, social media, product forums, meet-ups and more
- Collaborate across Canonical teams
- Solve specific technical problems that users or colleagues have identified
- Contribute to technical documentation
- Work on technical articles, presentations or workshops
- Identify new opportunities in developer experience
- Present at conferences, meetups or technical events
Requirements
What we are looking for in you:
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Developer with a demonstrable engagement in open-source software
- Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- Experience of Linux software packaging (deb, rpm or snap)
- Contributor to open-source communities, software and documentation
- An engaging, vivacious speaker and presenter
- Effective, tactful, empathetic and confident
- Builds trust, relationships and confidence
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
- Ability to travel in addition to upstream and industry events
Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring:
- Experience in a developer advocacy or community role
- Ops and system administration experience
- Performance engineering and security experience.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Deadline: February 29, 2024
Job Features
Job Category | Developer, Relations Engineer |