Developer Advocate

About Aerospike
At Aerospike, we dream big. Our focus is helping companies tackle seemingly insurmountable problems and doing what's never been done before. That is why we developed the world's leading real-time data platform that powers mission-critical applications at the world's most innovative, category disrupting companies. Our customers have deployed extreme scale real-time applications to fight fraud, dramatically increase shopping cart size, enable global digital payments, and deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions of customers.
Customers like Airtel, Experian, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media, Wayfair, and many others rely on Aerospike as the data foundation for the future to help them act in the microsecond moments that matter. Aerospike is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has a global presence with offices in London, Bangalore and Tel Aviv.
Must Haves

• AI expertise especially around vectors. Ideally has put an AI project into production
• Familiarity with RAG, LLM, semantic search preferred
• Must have been a developer - 5+ years developer with back-end skills in Java, C#, Python, Go, C, Node.js, Rust. (Databases, either SQL or ideally NoSQL, multi-threaded code, ideally distributed systems.)
• Subject matter expertise in Generative AI and related technology ecosystem
• Helping upskill developers in the principles, practices, and tools that they need to be successful in AI
• The ability to simplify complex topics into accessible, digestible, effective technical content
• Excellent communicator of complex technical topics which include creating presentations/talks for the public developer community
• Help to build a community of engineers invested in pushing the AI space forward
• Working with a team and people who value clarity, creativity, passion, initiative, and thoughtfulness.
• Strong communicator and AI educator for the broader developer community and ecosystem
• Strong collaborator - with Product, Engineering and Marketing teams, as well as our executives.
• The ability to regularly engage with community members in forums, chats, or meetups.
• Willingness and ability to learn.

Nice to Haves

• 5+ years of development and industry experience in ML/AI, including code development and the creating of demos to exhibit products. (A link to demos of this would be great!)
• Excellent presentation skills are a must.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of how the AI industry landscape will evolve in the next 5-10 years
• Enthusiasm and passion for the technology and for serving our community of users
• You are passionate about developers. Advocate for them and are enthusiastic about teaching them about AI and technical topics, now and the future of this.
• Be willing to work with our internal engineers as well as respond to challenges and questions developers may have with our products and offerings with AI/ML/ vector, You'll be pegged as the SME on the DevRel team
• Understanding the importance of community and considering this as part of their everyday relationship building is important
• You've worked as a Developer Advocate, Technical Community Manager, or Product Manager
• Engage with users regularly through different channels, including but not limited to GitHub, Stack Overflow, and Discord.
• Familiarity with Common Room is welcomed

What we value

• This person will have a can do, positive attitude and you like to work with a strong ( and fun!) developer relations team
• A sense of humor, ideally quirky
• Want to work with a developer relations team that highly values teamwork and supporting each other
• You've produced technical video tutorials and blog content. Writing about AI is a priority for this position to help inform and educate our audience and the broader developer community.
• Language requirements at least one or more of Python, Java, Javascript, C# (nice to have) and the ability to learn more

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to learn quickly and adapt in a flexible environment
• Ability to be calm in the face of pressure
• Ability to handle uncertainty and bring structure amongst chaos
• Ability to motivate and inspire team members to exceed expectations
• Experience working effectively with internal and external partners in an ever-changing, rapid-growth environment, especially in a matrixed organization

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.Salary Range for California Based Applicants: $130,000 - $160,000 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).