Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Amplify public security work and deepen relationships with security practitioners, researchers, maintainers, and open-source communities. The role combines community development, technical content, conference participation, open-source support, developer education, and hands-on software contributions.
Responsibilities
- Grow relationships across the security community and establish new ones
- Attend and speak at security conferences and cybersecurity meetups
- Support open-source projects and maintainers
- Facilitate technical office hours connecting maintainers with engineers
- Turn research and releases into advisories, writeups, and reusable guidance
- Optimize tools, skills, and plugins for adoption
- Teach security methods through workshops and hands-on sessions
- Publish deep dives, tutorials, and technical write-ups
- Help engineers identify, prepare, and deliver conference talks
- Run published work against unfamiliar code and provide feedback
- Ship runnable examples and workflow integrations
- Improve project onboarding, documentation, and first-run experiences
- Attract external contributors and encourage continued contributions
- Communicate practitioner needs, research gaps, and emerging ecosystems internally
Requirements
- Build and ship software such as tools, libraries, integrations, skills, or agents
- Read unfamiliar code, run analyzers, and open merged pull requests
- Have deep hands-on security experience, typically seven or more years
- Build with agentic tooling including skills, agents, MCP servers, harnesses, and evals
- Have a public body of work including talks, posts, upstream contributions, research, or documentation
- Possess credibility within security and open-source communities
- Demonstrate strong technical writing and public speaking ability
- Make and defend decisions under ambiguity
- Experience maintaining or meaningfully contributing to open-source projects
- Depth in 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 shipped alongside code
- Involvement with open-source foundations, grant programs, or maintainer initiatives
- Willingness to travel approximately one quarter of the year
Benefits
- Fully company-paid health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- 401(k) plan with a 5% base salary match
- 20 days of paid vacation
- 4 months of parental leave
- $10,000 relocation assistance for moving to NYC
- $1,000 working-from-home stipend
- Annual $750 learning and development stipend
- Company-sponsored all-team celebrations with travel and accommodation
- Philanthropic contribution matching up to $2,000 annually
- Annual performance-based bonuses