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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Developer Advocate - **Company:** Roche - **Location:** Madrid, Spain - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Application Lifecycle Management, Code Review, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Software Engineering, Software Organization, GitHub Copilot, Delivery Pipeline, Software Security, Break Fix, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Software Coding - **Published:** September 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/B0AB7D3D28E8459FB8AA2B2FB12C5C9E/job/ ## About the Role * Bachelor or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. * 7+ years of full-stack software development, DevOps, or Platform Engineering experience, with a strong comfort level writing code and analyzing architecture pipelines. * Deep familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, automated code review agents). * Understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD engines, container orchestration. * Proven ability to build reference architectures, starter kits, and mock environments that developers can clone and deploy in minutes. * Strong customer focus, ownership, initiative, and drive. * Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment in complex, fast-paced, and ambiguous environments. * Eagerness to participate in and represent at internal conferences, global engineering events, and inner-source meetups. * Exceptional written and oral storytelling skills tailored specifically to technical audiences, with a proven capacity to scale knowledge through internal blogs, tech talks, and interactive workshops. * Demonstrated capability to cross-functionally partner with Product, Engineering, Security and Compliance squads to transparently surface workflow friction and shift product roadmaps based on developer feedback. * Proven pragmatism in engineering delivery, focusing on stable, highly usable solutions that work today rather than chasing theoretical perfection that delays development. * An obsession with the end-to-end user journey, ensuring platform capabilities are always accompanied by clear documentation, seamless APIs, and accessible user support. ## Description At Roche, the Engineering Excellence & Experience (E3) organization builds the robust engineering bedrock that powers the future of medicine. We deliver foundational application lifecycle platforms, core developer platforms and AI tools required to build software seamlessly. By embedding application security and testing solutions directly into the engineering workflow, democratizing software delivery via low-code tools for non-technical creators, and surfacing data-driven insights, E3 accelerates secure, high-quality software delivery enterprise-wide. As a Developer Advocate, you will serve as the ultimate "Customer Success Champion," engineer-educator, and community-builder for the E3 technical ecosystem. Operating as a pragmatic, highly technical partner, you will bridge the gap between our global developer community and internal platform teams. You will dive deep into real-world developer workflows to eliminate complex delivery friction, bringing the professional integrity needed to honestly identify platform gaps and carry those insights back to our product squads. Ultimately, your mission is to empower practitioners through meaningful relationships and shared best practices that help our engineering community thrive with our tools while ensuring internal teams deeply understand their evolving needs., * Prototype technical integrations and templates between core E3 platforms and diverse, business-specific development pipelines. * Support engineering community members through hands-on troubleshooting, architecture reviews, and pairing sessions, modeling high standards for modern software development practices. * Build compelling presentations, demos, technical blogs, and sample solutions showcasing E3 capabilities. * Actively engage and support the internal Roche engineering community through inner-sourcing initiatives, internal tech talks, and hackathons. * Represent internal engineer needs by providing direct feedback on bugs, creating feature requests, and documenting workflow friction to help platform product squads improve the developer experience. * Maintain a strong presence and high credibility within internal communication channels, developer forums, and technical communities relevant to Roche engineers and non-technical creators. * Encourage, simplify, and drive the organic adoption of E3 capabilities across the company. * Engage as a technical spokesperson and champion for the E3 organization across Roche business units. * Communicate developer feedback trends, platform adoption milestones, and workflow bottlenecks clearly to E3 leadership and stakeholders. * Act as a mentor and resource for internal engineers and platform squad members, sharing technical knowledge, best practices, and guidance on embedded AppSec and AI tools. * Contribute directly to platform product vision discussions, advocating for critical improvements in documentation, API usability, and the end-to-end developer experience. ## Related Videos - [Shifting Stress to Progress— Understanding DevOps to do DevOps Better](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/268-shifting-stress-to-progress-understanding-devops-to-do-devops-better) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [Don't Change the Partition Count for Kafka Topics!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/138-don-t-change-the-partition-count-for-kafka-topics) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Developer Advocacy in accelerated times](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1048-developer-advocacy-in-accelerated-times) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [What’s the Difference between a Junior, Mid, and Senior Developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/238-what-s-the-difference-between-a-junior-mid-and-senior-developer) - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) - [Why developer experience matters](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/514-why-developer-experience-matters)