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Developer Relations Engineer, Backstage

Spotify

Spotify

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA · Remote
Posted 6+ months ago
  • Web

We are seeking a Developer Relations Engineer to join a high paced team of engineers, marketers, business developers, and product managers (like a small startup) to test an entirely new technology-focused business line and distribution channel that seeks to meaningfully improve Spotify gross margin. We’re looking for ways to turbocharge the adoption of an already successful open source project and explore then scale outstanding commercial models.

Location

New York or Remote ESTAmericas

Job type

Permanent

Are you passionate about empowering developers to move quickly and scaling open source projects? Join us!
Responsibilities will vary frequently. We wear several hats and it's likely this role will span working with developers within Spotify, in the open source community, and across thousands of companies. We want someone who’s passionate about this type of environment.

What You'll Do

  • Own the cultivation and growth of the Backstage developer community.
  • Connect with developers, both to share knowledge about Backstage and to bring back feedback from the community to the core team.
  • Identify points of friction in the adoption and integration experience of Backstage.
  • Collaborate with leadership to identify targets accounts and drive meaningful adoption of those organizations.
  • Develop a strategy to hand off commercial-ready adopters to the sales pipeline.
  • Build adoption documentation and evolve our existing public forums to provide champions with the info they need to make a Backstage business case.
  • Share with the community through speaking, writing, and participation in developer events.
  • Help make the developer experience simpler and better for all developers.
  • Provide technical support to developers using Backstage.

Who You Are

  • Experience working in developer relations, developer community management, contributor success or a related field.
  • Have a technical background, ideally comfortable with web technologies.
  • Experience developing resources to support a developer platform (i.e. documentation, tutorials, sample apps, API client libraries).
  • Experience and skills in technical writing and public speaking.
  • Strong listening and communication skills.

Where You'll Be

  • Where in the world? For this role, you can be located in the UK.
  • Prefer to work in the office environment? Prefer to work from home? Not a problem. We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere here.

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Our global benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Learn about life at Spotify

The United States base range for this position is $122,716-$175,308, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.