Developer Advocate

KERNEL
San Francisco, CA, United States
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
$175,000.0 - $235,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Github PostgreSQL Software Engineering Generative AI Discord

Job description

We are an infrastructure company and developers are our core users. As a Developer Advocate, 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
  • Iterate on Kernel’s developer documentation 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

Requirements

  • 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

Benefits & conditions

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 interview (virtual)
  • Half-day on-site (virtual or in-person) working with our team on relevant challenges.
  • Offer!

Compensation Range: $175K - $235K

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