DESCRIPTION

Do you love being a part of an open source community and working with them to deliver world-class NoSQL database technology? Are you ready to share your enthusiasm for NoSQL databases with the wider technology universe?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join the Open Source Strategy & Marketing team. Our creative, experienced organization is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of Valkey. In this role, you will combine your technical skills, passion, and creativity to encourage developers to use, improve, and evangelize Valkey. In the process, you’ll nurture and grow the Valkey community and build influence with its key users and contributors.

Who we’re looking for

You’re passionate about the power of open source projects and the results that come from growing a robust and sustainable community around them. You come from a developer background, ideally with database experience. You’re comfortable on stage or screen telling the stories of Valkey’s people, features, and future. You understand how to connect with technology leaders across communities, companies, and industries. You have a strong intuitive sense for what will make Valkey successful and the drive to put plans into action. You’re ready to be an active participant in the community, participating in development, and empowering others to participate along with you.

Key job responsibilities
* Contribute regularly in the Valkey community, through direct engagement with developers, content, and code
* Triage and review contributions to Valkey
* Build and execute content strategies that encourage awareness and adoption of Valkey
* Promote Valkey and its community by creating valuable content for its users, current and future. This includes technical demos, videos, blog posts, podcasts, and livestreams.
* Authentically engage the broader developer community to understand their needs and advocate for Valkey
* Provide valuable community feedback to AWS service teams to help improve our products and services and advocate for community needs inside the service teams.
* Build relationships and represent the needs of community members, users, and partners
* Speak at industry and community events about Valkey
* Participate in online developer communities such as Stack Overflow, GitHub, Reddit
* Be active and visible in social media to stay positively connected to developers
* Connect and grow community through travel (including internationally when needed), with the flexibility to choose where and when you need to be
* Set your own goals and work autonomously to accomplish them



A day in the life
As a community builder, you’ll help attract contributors and users to Valkey and keep them engaged and inspired and work to improve the developer experience. You will represent the Valkey community inside AWS and use data to improve the project.

As an ambassador, you will build long-term relationships with members of the Valkey community. You'll work with them to identify areas for growth, amplify what they create, and recognize the people and stories that deserve more attention.

As a contributor, you will improve Valkey, by creating resources to ease adoption, participating in the development process, and enhancing the technical documentation.

As a team member, you will lend your creativity, humor, and memes to our discussions and get togethers. We believe in the power of fun and play to build connections.

About the team
AWS Developer Experience (DevEx) 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 DevEx includes experienced technologists, content creators, and community builders that have worked in and for open source at some of the industry’s top companies and foundations. We use our deep experience to help AWS effectively and authentically engage with open source communities, partners, and stakeholders.

Our mission is to help AWS deliver on two, tightly linked objectives: 1) to significantly increase the scope and value of our open source involvement and 2) to help customers and communities learn about our involvement and understand why it matters.