[Hiring] Senior Developer Advocate @Elastic

Role Description

Developers and community matter. Our users and contributors have helped ensure that the Elastic Stack (including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is more than just code — they are open source projects that people love to use.

Are you the kind of person who is keen on sharing technology with the world and supporting our global user-base? Your activities as a Senior Developer Advocate with a focus on content creation include:

• Publish deep-dive videos that connect search, vector databases, and agentic workflows, or cover observability with logs, metrics, and traces including the OpenTelemetry perspective.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends in search and AI or observability to cover what's new and exciting for our users.
• Build open-source demos and example applications on GitHub that combine Elasticsearch with developer and AI tools.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch Labs and our YouTube channel.

The DevRel team's mission is to educate and help our users succeed by being an expert in Elasticsearch and the Search + AI or observability ecosystem.

If you read this far and think: "that's me!" — You probably won't need to read any further, and we should have a conversation. But if you doubt the experience we expect you to have, the following should help clarify.

Qualifications

• A proven track record of creating highly technical and engaging videos — share your best work with us! This is mandatory in the application.
• Strong technical background and experience in an engineering role.
• Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues, provide internal feedback to make Elastic’s products better, and fix problems where possible.
• Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.
• Experience working self-driven and self-organizing.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

Requirements

• Create high-quality technical videos focused on search, AI/ML, observability, and Elasticsearch as a platform. This covers foundational concepts, sophisticated use-cases, and research trends.
• Explore and explain how Elasticsearch integrates with other tools and protocols in the ecosystems (e.g., LLMs, frameworks, OpenTelemetry, and Cloud providers).
• Prototype and publish sample applications showing end-to-end Search + AI or observability use cases.
• Bring a creative twist to Elastic's content creation to keep existing users engaged and capture new audiences.
• Provide feedback to product and engineering teams based on your hands-on experience and community interactions.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.