• 8+ years working in a hands-on technical role in software development (backend or fullstack development), architecture, database administration, or operations (SRE, Dev Ops).
• Experience contributing to an open source project.
• Experience with public speaking, content creation, and presentation skills (in person and online).
• Experience working with technical communities.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join the Open Source Strategy & Marketing team. Our creative, experienced, and energetic organization is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of Open Search. In this role, you’ll combine your technical skills, passion, and creativity to generate grass-roots attention and support for Open Search among key industry innovators and technologists.

Ideally, you’re someone who comes from a software development, database, or SRE background; but you love to be on stage or on screen guiding the community towards technologies that you believe in. You have immediate credibility with startups, developers, architects, and technology leaders. You’re excited about open source software and search engines. You love to share your passion with others and you exhibit judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.

This Developer Advocate role will have substantial travel to connect with the Open Search community. Between travel, you’ll interact with community actively on Git Hub by reviewing and commenting on code, contributing to the Open Search docs, and by creating written content in the public on the Open Search website.

Key job responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining relevant content (demos, videos, blogs, podcasts, livestreams, etc), covering Open Search along with emerging technologies and industry developments.
• Gaining industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee and speaker at third-party technology conferences, shows, and press events.
• Curating, developing, and delivering compelling presentations to help drive awareness and adoption of Open Search.
• Maintaining a credible presence in social media
• Ability to travel (including internationally when needed) and ability to work autonomously

A day in the life
As an influencer, you'll use your unique personality and authentic content to help attract contributors and users to Open Search and keep them engaged and inspired to build.

As a part of the Open Search project, you'll engage with Builders to identify and anticipate user challenges. You will represent the voice of Builders with internal service teams and leverage the data you gathered from the community to help influence the project.

As an ambassador, you'll build long-term relationships with members of the Open Search community. You'll work with others in the Open Search community to identify areas to engage, amplify the materials and resources you create, and identify areas of improvement in the project's public content.

About the team
AWS Developer Experience is a technical marketing team focused on winning the hearts and minds of Builders at scale. The Open Source Strategy and Marketing (OSSM - pronounced “awesome”) team inside Developer Experience includes veterans that have worked for some of the industry’s top open source companies and foundations. We help service teams, the field, and others effectively engage with project communities, media and analysts, foundations and partners, and others in the broader open source community.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and Amaze Con (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

• Hands-on knowledge and experience with Open Search.
• Understanding of No SQL data modelling and distributed systems.
• Demonstrable following in social and technical channels such as Twitter, You Tube, Git Hub, Twitch, or other local platforms.
• Experience managing and/or maintaining medium to large scale projects on Git Hub.
• Success in nurturing, engaging with, and growing large open source projects.
• Track record of contributing to documentation and/or writing technical how-to content.