Developer Advocate

at  Loft Labs Inc

ABOUT LOFT LABS

We are a venture-backed tech startup striving to be the leading force in enabling platform engineers. After closing our Series A lead by Khosla Ventures in Q1 2024, we are in the hyper-growth phase and looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe, and we have a remote-first work culture.
We’re the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (+40M virtual clusters created by users, vibrant Slack community with +3,000 members, +5k GitHub stars).
The adoption of our commercial product based on vCluster has grown extremely fast (multi-million dollar revenue, 4.6x ARR growth over the past 12 months), and our customer base now includes some of the biggest companies in the world including 6 Global Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the fastest-growing tech unicorns.

REQUIREMENTS

• At least 6 years of combined experience in engineering plus DevRel
• Extensive experience in containers, Kubernetes, various DevOps technologies, and cloud-native landscape.
• Ability to coordinate across many teams and iterate and deliver in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Skills to explain and translate complex technical concepts into simple and intuitive communications.
• Experience being self-directed and working with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Public speaking experience (expert panels, webinars, conferences).

WHY JOIN A STARTUP LIKE LOFT LABS?

Since we are a fast-moving startup, you will not be number 14,589 in our company but rather become an essential part of our team right from the start:

• Fast Application Process: We will typically get back to you within a week. No need to polish your resume for us. Just send us some links (e.g. LinkedIn, etc.), answer a few questions about your previous experiences, and hop on a quick Zoom call with one of our team members to see if you’re a good fit. We will respond quickly and make hiring decisions within days rather than months.
• Open-Minded Work Environment: You can always speak your mind - no company politics or unnecessary formalities. We are operating in a lean, honest, and efficient way and we are looking for different perspectives, constructive feedback and creative, motivated people who want to make a difference.
• Grow With The Company: We are a small company right now but we are growing incredibly fast because we work on something that has a lot of value to engineering teams in large enterprises. Joining Loft Labs early will give you the chance to advance much faster to the next step on the career ladder than in any larger company.
• Responsibility From Day 1: You will see right from the start that your work will immediately have an impact in our company and you can shape the future of this company together with the rest of our team. Grow with us and benefit from being part of this journey from the start.

• Write technical blog posts, create engaging content including YouTube videos, webinars, and tutorials.
• Give talks at conferences, webinars, and meetups to promote vCluster and other Loft Labs products.
• Organize and attend community events, meetups, and conferences.
• Attract the right audience to join the community.
• Educate and engage existing Loft/vCluster community members.
• Run weekly/monthly office hours and community calls.
• Run community-specific live streams, webinars, AMAs.
• Respond to technical questions on Slack channels.
• Gather community feedback and inform product/engineering/marketing/sales teams.
• Write helpful content and record videos based on community feedback.
• Educate and engage the community, keeping in mind our commercial offerings.