DevRel Engineer

As a DevRel Engineer at Kernel, you’ll be part builder, part solutions engineer, and fully embedded in the developer community. This is a hands-on engineering role: you’ll spend ~50% of your time coding tools, demos, and SDKs and the rest helping developers succeed.

We are an infrastructure company and developers are our core users. As a DevRel Engineer, you’ll be the public voice of Kernel for developers: creating content, engaging with the community, and bringing insights back to our product and engineering teams. You’ll help define how builders learn about browser infrastructure, adopt Kernel, and push the frontier of what AI agents can do on the live Web.

What you’ll do

• Build OSS tools, libraries, and integrations that make Kernel’s developer experience more powerful and easier to use
• Create high-quality tutorials, guides, and demos showcasing Kernel’s core and emerging capabilities
• Own Kernel’s developer documentation and iterate on it as a first-class product surface
• Engage with our community on GitHub/Slack/Discord/Twitter and in-person events, answering questions and amplifying cool projects
• Contribute to Kernel’s technical blog, developing content that educates, inspires, and grows developer adoption
• Influence Kernel’s culture, product, and direction as a founding team member

• Hands-on familiarity with generative AI, especially agents, MCP, and Kernel
• Strong technical foundation in software engineering or applied AI. You’re comfortable building code samples, demos, and lightweight apps
• Developer empathy: you know what excites them, what annoys them, and how to speak their language (our inspirations: Modal, Supabase, PlanetScale)
• Skilled communication abilities with a clear, engaging style across writing, video, and live presentations
• Curiosity, high-agency, and a genuine passion to build something that delights software engineers

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Relocation assistance
• Unlimited paid time off
• Dependent health insurance coverage, * Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Premium medical + dental coverage + dependent coverage
• Small, high-trust team of senior + staff engineers
• Default async with minimal bureaucracy
• $1k / mo budget for LLM usage fees #vibecheck
• Daily lunches on us
• Unlimited PTO
• 401k + company match
• Relocation assistance

Hiring process

We have a simple process focused on real world collaboration and jointly getting to know each other:

• 30 minute intro call with one of Kernel’s co-founders
• 45-minute technical interview (virtual)
• Half-day on-site (virtual or in-person) working with our team on relevant challenges.
• Offer!

Compensation Range: $175K - $235K