Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role
For all of us at Elastic, community matters. Our users and contributors have helped to ensure that the Elastic Stack (including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) are more than just code — they are open source projects that people love to use, and love to talk about! As our Senior Developer Advocate you will champion our Elastic community.What You Will Be Doing
Are you keen on sharing technology with the world and supporting our global user-base? Do you feel at home connecting with community members across the globe: in person, on blogs, in forums, via social channels, and at events? Is speaking publicly at local meetups your jam? Are you passionate about the Elastic Stack? If so this might just be your dream job. Your activities as a Senior Developer Advocate at Elastic would include:- Speaking publicly at in-person and virtual conferences, meetups and other events.
- Answering questions from developers on Discuss (our forum), Slack and other forums.
- Building and sharing content, including social media posts, in-depth blog posts, example code, demos, tutorials and videos on elastic.co or our YouTube channel.
- Contributing code on GitHub both to Elastic and external repositories.
- Providing feedback from the developer community to our engineering teams to improve Elastic products.
What You Bring
- Deep technical background and experience in an engineering role, such as software engineering.
- Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology — including speaking, writing, and demoing.
- Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues, provide internal feedback to make Elastic’s products better, and fix problems where possible.
- Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.
- A devoted individual with experience working as a contributor in self-organizing teams.
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English AND Portuguese.
Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
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