Developer Advocate

Experience working as a developer, architect, advocate/evangelist, or similar hands-on technical roles
- Excellent public speaking, content creation, and presentation skills (in person and online), and experience working with technical communities.
- Willingness to travel and ability to work autonomously
- Able to work in a diverse team
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in Spanish & English to support Spanish Speaking audiences
- NOTE: Please ensure your CV includes links to content you've created (videos of talks, blog posts, demo code, etc) as well as details of any developer community activities.

Job summary

Do you love getting hands-on with software and to share your enthusiasm for cloud computing with the wider tech community?

Come join the Developer Relations team at AWS Our creative, experienced, and energetic organization helps to drive the development and adoption of AWS services. In this role, you’ll combine your technical skills, passion, and creativity to generate grass-roots attention and support for AWS among beginners, industry innovators, and technologists.

This role is for you, if you are someone who comes from a software and/or infrastructure background that loves to be on stage or to create content to guide others towards technologies that you believe in. You can gain credibility with students and developers. You are passionate about helping communities, from beginners to more experienced builders, and exhibit good judgment selecting the most impactful opportunities to do so.

You’ll work alongside experienced Developer Advocates to:

- Deliver audience-focused technical presentations. Curate and build hands-on technical content. Grow your knowledge of AWS services, adding breadth and depth as required by your passions and by your audience’s needs.
- Provide technical guidance for Builders to be successful with the cloud. Simplify complex topics and adapt your message to the needs of your audience.
- Use your unique personality and authentic content to help attract Builders to AWS. Inspiring them to build and keeping them engaged.

Key job responsibilities
- Gain industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee and speaker at AWS and third-party conferences, shows, and press events.
- Develop and deliver compelling presentations, sample solutions, and discussions to help drive awareness and adoption of AWS services.
- Collaborate with internal teams to define the regional strategy and goals, as well as supporting community user groups and developer program initiatives.
- Create and maintain relevant content (demos, videos, blogs, screencasts, etc.), covering AWS services along with emerging technologies and industry developments.
- Maintain a strong and credible presence in social media channels relevant to technical audiences.
- Working with your worldwide counterparts to share best practices and help build a best-in-the-industry developer relations organization.

About the team

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the futur
- Experience (5 yrs) in IT Infrastructure and/or software development, with special emphasis in areas including Databases, Application Services, Big Data, Containers, Serverless Applications, Machine Learning, Open Source Solutions, Front-end development, and/ or distributed computing.
- Exposure to nurturing, engaging, and growing developer communities, and leveraging social channels.
- A history of successful speaking engagements and online content creation.