[Hiring] Senior Developer Relations Engineer @Qdrant

Role Description

As our Senior Developer Relations Engineer in San Francisco, you'll lead Qdrant's developer engagement in one of the most active AI communities in the world. In this senior individual contributor role, you'll combine hands-on engineering (about 40% of your time) with public speaking, content, and community building (about 60%).

Your impact will show up in two places:

• Externally, you'll turn your Bay Area relationships with engineers, founders, and event organizers into joint projects and workshops with our ecosystem partners.
• Your talks at premier conferences and your technical content will reach hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide.

Inside Qdrant, you'll bring what you hear from developers directly to our core engineering team to shape the roadmap, and you'll raise the bar for the DevRel team by starting new initiatives and mentoring others.

What You Will Own

• Demos and applied research: Build and maintain open-source demo applications, such as end-to-end retrieval pipelines, recommendation engines, and AI search tools. Prototype new Qdrant use cases by experimenting with emerging patterns like neural sparse encoders, agentic workflows, and AI memory.
• Technical content: Write in-depth technical articles, record video tutorials, and create practical guides that make complex concepts easy to follow.
• Talks, events, and Bay Area partnerships: Give talks and live coding sessions at conferences, and lead Qdrant's presence at hackathons and workshops. Work with our partnerships team to turn local relationships into joint workshops, demos, and speaking opportunities.
• Developer community: Answer technical questions on Discord, X, LinkedIn, and Reddit, and bring what developers need back to our product and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, Developer Relations, or technical marketing, including at least 3 in Developer Relations.
• Experience delivering technical talks, workshops, and community programs.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Rust, TypeScript, or Go.
• Ability to build and debug applications that use vector search, embeddings, and large language models.
• Active part of the Bay Area developer and AI community with real relationships among engineers, event organizers, and founders.

Requirements

• Ownership of a DevRel program or initiative end to end.
• Ability to influence product or engineering decisions based on developer feedback.
• Judgment and empathy for developers, understanding their needs and creating relevant content.

Nice To Have

• Experience working on search or information retrieval systems.
• Ability to conduct applied research, read papers, run experiments or benchmarks.
• Experience building an audience through video or social media.

Benefits

• A remote-first, international team working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
• A competitive salary with additional perks.
• Flexible working hours and async-friendly culture.
• High ownership and real impact.
• Open-source, engineering-driven culture.
• Choose your own laptop equipment.
• Comprehensive benefits package for US-based full-time employees, including 401k match, health, dental, and vision insurance, plus flexible PTO policy.

Company Description

Qdrant is an open-source vector search engine powering the next generation of AI applications, from semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to AI agents and real-time recommendations. Trusted by global leaders like Canva, HubSpot, Tripadvisor, Bosch, and Deutsche Telekom, we’re building the retrieval infrastructure layer for modern AI. Recently raising $50M in Series B funding, we are growing rapidly and committed to transforming how AI understands and interacts with data.

As a remote-first company, we believe diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences fuel innovation. Here, you’ll own meaningful work, tackle challenges, and grow alongside passionate individuals dedicated to shaping the future of AI.