Senior Developer Advocate (North America, Remote)

• Build and maintain reference architectures, demo repositories, and working examples on GitHub.
• Contribute small fixes, docs PRs, and integration improvements to VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaTraces, VictoriaLogs, and our overall stack.
• Produce audio-visual content alongside your colleagues; screencasts, conference recordings, podcast appearances, technical interviews.

Community engagement and advocacy ( 30%)

• Maintain a credible, non-promotional presence on HackerNews, Reddit (r/devops, r/sre, r/kubernetes, r/grafana), CNCF Slack, the Prometheus and Grafana community channels, X/LinkedIn, and the Slack/Discord communities where observability conversations happen.
• Answer technical questions, weigh in substantively on comparison threads, and help users debug real problems.
• Partner with our Marketing Manager to develop online spaces, social presence, and partner programs that encourage peer support around our open-source projects.

Speaking and events ( 20%)

• Submit CFPs to and speak at North American conferences and meetups per year.
• Run online workshops, office hours, technical training, and developer-day style events.
• Represent VictoriaMetrics on podcasts, panels, and industry roundtables.

Feedback loop and product influence ( 10%)

• Synthesize community signal into concrete, actionable input for engineering and product leadership.
• Advocate internally for feature, documentation, and DX improvements based on what you hear from users
• Coordinate with our cross functional leads and counterparts in marketing for alignment and cohesion.

Do you have experience in Query management?, * 5+ years in a developer-facing role - developer advocacy, evangelism, developer experience, or hands-on SRE / observability engineering with substantial public output.

• Production experience with at least two of: Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Thanos, Cortex, Mimir, InfluxDB, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, or Tempo.
• Comfortable reading and writing Go. You should be able to file substantive issues against VictoriaMetrics, read the source to answer your own questions, and contribute small PRs. * Fluency with PromQL and/or MetricsQL - you can debug a slow query, not just write one.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience: Helm charts, operators, kubectl, the realities of running stateful workloads in production.
• Demonstrable public footprint: personal blog, conference talks, OSS contributions, or a substantial GitHub presence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. Comfortable presenting to a room of skeptical engineers.
• Experience speaking at technical conferences; ideally CNCF or observability-focused (KubeCon, SREcon, and regional CNCF meetups).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with VictoriaMetrics or similar open source monitoring and observability tools.
• Previous experience in a user/customer-facing role

Together we will

Grow our online presence, visibility & user experience

• Work with our Founders, engineers, the marketing team and others on meeting our existing and new users where they are with information that's relevant to them.

Pulled from the full job description

• Flexible schedule, * Competitive salary benchmarked against North American market data.
• Fully remote work, flexible hours, and a small, senior team that respects async work.
• Support for your professional and personal growth: you will work directly with our founders, marketing team, and our design and engineering teams; your community feedback shapes the roadmap.
• Autonomy and active support for initiative you bring: you decide where to spend your time within the strategic priorities we set together.
• A platform with 1B+ downloads and Fortune 500 customers - the audience is already there
• The chance to make a real impact on our technology and user community.

About VictoriaMetrics We are the company behind the popular open-source, high-performance time-series database and monitoring solution, VictoriaMetrics; as well as the open source logs database, VictoriaLogs, and our open source traces database, VictoriaTraces. Together, they form the VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack. We are a fast-growing scaleup making our mark on the observability landscape with solutions that are simple, reliable and efficient. Fortune 500 companies use our products as their core observability solution such as Spotify R&D, Wix, Hubspot, Adidas, and thousands others. Our products have now surpassed 1 billion downloads.