[Hiring] Senior Developer Relations Engineer @Trail of Bits

Role Description

We are hiring a Developer Relations Engineer to amplify our public work and deepen our relationships with the security practitioners, researchers, maintainers, and open-source communities we serve. You will report to the Head of Go-to-Market and work in close partnership with our engineering practices and GTM teams.

Today, most of that happens alongside client commitments. This role gives it a dedicated advocate. You take what we build and learn internally and extend its reach:

• Help decide what gets published.
• Explain what was built and why it matters.
• Put it in the hands of people who will use it.

Engineering owns research and tooling, Marketing owns channels and distribution, and Technical Editing owns editorial standards. You bring the relationships and the technical substance that make it travel, and you carry no quota and no account list.

You will occasionally join a technical conversation where your expertise fits and where you judge it matters. Our interview process includes a technical conversation with our engineers and a short presentation.

What You’ll Do

• Grow the relationships we already have across the security community, and start new ones.
• Own our baseline event presence.
• Support the open-source projects and maintainers we work with.
• Turn our research and releases into practitioner staples.
• Publish under your own name, and be present where that work gets discussed.
• Accelerate our conference and CFP motion.
• Use our own work the way the community does.
• Make our work easy to adopt.
• Attract contributors from outside Trail of Bits.
• Route what you hear back into the firm.

Qualifications

• Software people actually use.
• Security depth: Deep, hands-on security experience, typically seven or more years.
• AI-native in practice: You build with agentic tooling.
• A public body of work: Contributions visible in talks, posts, upstream contributions, research, and documentation.
• Community credibility: Knowledge of community dynamics and trust.
• Writing and speaking that survive a skeptical audience.
• Ownership under ambiguity: Ability to decide what matters and defend the choice.

Nice to Have

• Experience maintaining or contributing meaningfully to an open-source project.
• Depth in one of our domains: application security, blockchain and cryptography, AI/ML security, or low-level systems research.
• Experience running or programming a community venue at meaningful scale.
• Contributions to developer documentation that lives alongside the code.
• Involvement with open-source foundations, grant programs, or maintainer-facing initiatives.

What Won’t Work Here

• Advocacy without building.
• Waiting to be handed a plan.
• Reluctance to travel.

How We’ll Measure This

You will set targets with your manager in your first quarter and review them quarterly. We will look at ecosystem outcomes:

• Outside contributors.
• Upstream fixes landed with maintainers.
• Talks accepted by you and engineers you prepared.
• Writing that gets cited.
• Practitioners who would vouch for us unprompted.

Salary Information

The base salary for this full-time position is $160,000 to $200,000. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for annual bonuses and benefits. Various factors influence our salary ranges, including the specific role, level of seniority, geographic location, and the nature of the employment contract.

Benefits

• Competitive salary complemented by performance-based bonuses.
• Fully company-paid insurance packages, including health, dental, vision, disability, and life.
• A solid 401(k) plan with a 5% match of your base salary.
• 20 days of paid vacation with flexibility for more.
• 4 months of parental leave.
• $10,000 in relocation assistance for moving to NYC.
• $1,000 Working-from-Home stipend.
• Annual $750 Learning & Development stipend.
• Company-sponsored all-team celebrations.
• Philanthropic contribution matching up to $2,000 annually.