Senior Developer Advocate, AIOakland, California, United States
About the Job:
LaunchDarkly is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The developer community is deciding right now what the AI era of software looks like, and much of that conversation happens in person: meetups, demo nights, hackathons, and hallway conversations across the city. You'll own our Bay Area presence: which rooms we're in, how often we're there, and what we do with what we learn. That means being in those rooms consistently, as a genuine participant: building long-term relationships with the practitioners shaping how agentic software gets built, bringing their signal back to LaunchDarkly, and showing them, credibly and only when it's relevant, how runtime control changes what they can ship. It's a role for someone who would be going to these events anyway.
Responsibilities:- Show up consistently: attend Bay Area developer events several times a week (meetups, demo nights, hackathons, conferences), building real relationships with AI and platform engineers over months, not transactions over days
- Listen more than you talk: bring back structured signal on what practitioners are building, where they're stuck, and how they talk about agents, releases, and runtime control
- Demonstrate, don't pitch: build and show small, credible demos on Agent
- Control and the LaunchDarkly platform, and hold your own when the technical questions get hard
- Add to the conversation: write event recaps and practitioner-grade content that people in the community actually want to read, rather than broadcasting at them
- Earn the right to convene: over time, organize gatherings around problems developers actually have, not around LaunchDarkly as a brand
- Feed the team: route relationships, signal, and opportunities to the owners who can act on them, with enough context attached to act
What Success Looks Like:- LaunchDarkly has a consistent, welcome presence in the rooms where the AI developer conversation is happening, and you decided which rooms those are
- Organizers invite you to speak rather than fielding our pitches, and practitioners seek you out at events
- Your recaps get shared by people who weren't in the room, and your content draws an audience without paid distribution
- What you bring back changes decisions: a play gets adjusted, positioning gets sharpened, a docs gap gets prioritized because of what you surfaced
- You've killed or redesigned at least one part of your own plan based on the evidence, and told us afterward
- Over time, you're convening gatherings developers attend for the problems on the agenda, and increasingly because you're the host
Qualifications:- Experience in developer advocacy, community, solutions engineering, customer success, or another customer-facing technical role
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the ability to attend events in person several times a week, including evenings
- Technically credible: you can build and demo real things and hold a deep technical conversation without a script
- Already active in, or genuinely drawn to, the AI developer scene
- A strong written voice: your recaps make people who weren't in the room feel like they missed something
- Bonus if you have:
- An existing network in the Bay Area developer community
- Experience organizing meetups or developer events
- Familiarity with feature management, experimentation, observability, or agent frameworks
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 4:Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $152,000 - $210,000 Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $137,000 - $189,000 Zone 3: All other US locations - $129,000 - $178,000 **LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.*Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by: Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com.Do you need a disability accommodation? Fill out this accommodations request form and someone from our People Operations team will contact you for assistance. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from @launchdarkly.com email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit Careers | LaunchDarkly directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply. Please notify us of any fraudulent representation by sending an email to careers@launchdarkly.com.
