Senior Developer Relations Engineer

Cloudsmith
Belfast, UK
19 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Continuous Integration DevOps Open Source Technology Package Management Systems Devsecops

Job description

As a Senior Developer Relations Engineer, you will serve as an internal and external technical champion for Cloudsmith. You will engage deeply with open source communities, support developers through high-quality technical content, and help build partnerships across the broader software supply chain ecosystem. This role requires strong technical proficiency, excellent communication skills, and a passion for empowering developers., Community Building and Awareness

  • Build and grow Cloudsmith’s presence across the communities where our audience lives: CNCF and related open source projects, developer forums, Reddit, Linkedin, and other digital and in-person communities.
  • Respond on social media and other communities to mentions of cloudsmith, and topics of interest to cloudsmith customers.
  • Represent Cloudsmith at (and help select) conferences, meetups, and community events, both as an attendee and a speaker
  • Develop and run programs that turn community engagement into awareness: talks, workshops, community Q&As, sponsorships, and grassroots advocacy
  • Identify and cultivate relationships with open source maintainers, influencers, and technical champions who can extend Cloudsmith’s reach
  • Champion our partnerships and integrations by strengthening relationships across ecosystem partners and feeding intelligence back to Cloudsmith about where we could work more closely with them.
  • Track and report on community health and awareness metrics (reach, engagement, share of voice) to show how community work connects to pipeline and brand goals

Technical Content

  • Produce high quality product videos, demos, how to guides, and walkthroughs to support product launches and ongoing campaigns
  • Help with Cloudsmith’s response to incidents involving public OSS registries
  • Write technical blog posts, product documentation, and deep dives on package management and DevSecOps
  • Speak on webinars and present at live events on open-source artifact management and software supply chain security
  • Serve as a voice of authority on behalf of Cloudsmith with media outlets and journalists

Open Source Advocacy and SME Support

  • Highlight relevant open source projects to the wider business and bring forward opportunities that support Cloudsmith strategy
  • Act as a subject matter expert for open source standards, tooling, and best practices
  • Provide structured product / product marketing feedback to influence innovation across engineering and product
  • Build and contribute to open source tools, sample applications, and integrations that support the Cloudsmith ecosystem

Requirements

  • Strong experience with DevOps, package management, CI/CD pipelines, and software supply chain tools
  • A track record of building or growing a developer communities
  • Experience engaging with open source communities as a contributor or maintainer
  • Ability to produce clear, compelling technical content in multiple formats
  • Ability to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences across engineering, product, and go to market teams
  • Comfortable being a public face of a company: speaking on stage, on camera, and in community spaces
  • Experience supporting partnerships, ecosystems, or technical integrations
  • Existing personal audience or following in the developer/open source community (blog, X/Twitter, YouTube, newsletter, etc.) is a strong plus.

Benefits & conditions

  • A competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • With comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Plus, generous annual leave and flexible working policies to suit your lifestyle.
  • Including a professional development budget for conferences and training.
  • In a dynamic, innovative, trust-centric, and supportive work environment.
  • With the opportunity to shape a fast-growing Series B startup (and beyond).
  • Regular (monthly-ish) travel may be required for team meetings.
  • Regular (quarterly-ish) travel may also be required for events and customers.

Health and Wellness

Regardless of your location, we deeply care about the health and wellness of our staff and their families; a sustainable pace is important to us. In addition to generous annual leave (PTO), we offer health and wellbeing benefits along with flexible family-friendly working policies.

About the company

Cloudsmith is the world’s most powerful artifact management platform. Software organizations of all sizes rely on Cloudsmith to control and secure their software supply chains. Cloudsmith allows customers to manage curated private repositories that proxy public open-source software registries. Developers use these repositories as their trusted source for build artifacts. We support over 30 formats, including most popular languages, package managers, operating systems, and AI and container protocols.

We’re aimed at the enterprise, with built-in comprehensive security and advanced features for policy enforcement, integrations, and observability. Customers consider Cloudsmith to be critical infrastructure as a central part of their software build chain.

Cloudsmith is built by developers, for developers. We treasure the developer experience. The Tao of Cloudsmith expresses the values we live by every day. This is a special company, and now is a great time to join us., Cloudsmith is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with fully-equipped office space that’s open 24x7. We use our H.Q. regularly for activities like working sessions, team planning, meets and greets, and sometimes other group activities (like games!). We also hold all-hands offsites in Belfast thrice yearly, with guest speakers and team activities. Many Cloudsmithers work remotely, so we rely on our online collaboration tools; Slack, Google Docs, Linear, and other popular collaboration tools are how we work., About Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith is a fully managed solution for controlling, securing, and distributing everything that flows through your software supply chain, using the best of cloud-native artifact management. Operate at enterprise scale, reduce risk, and streamline builds. Cloudsmith just works, so your developers can, too. Founded in 2016 Co-workers 140+ (and growing!)

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