Senior Developer Relations Engineer (San Francisco, California)

The role

You will lead developer engagement through hands-on engineering, public speaking, content creation, and community building. You will build demo applications, write technical content, and represent the company at conferences and events.

What you will do

• Build and maintain open-source demo applications.
• Prototype new Qdrant use cases using emerging patterns.
• Write in-depth technical articles, record video tutorials, and create practical guides.
• Give talks and live coding sessions at conferences.
• Lead presence at hackathons and workshops.
• Work with the partnerships team on joint workshops and demos.
• Answer technical questions on Discord, X, LinkedIn, and Reddit.
• Bring developer feedback to product and engineering teams.
• Mentor others and start new initiatives.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, Developer Relations, or technical marketing.
• At least 3 years in Developer Relations.
• Experience independently delivering technical talks, workshops, and community programs.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Rust, TypeScript, or Go.
• Ability to build and debug applications using vector search, embeddings, and large language models.
• Experience owning a DevRel program or initiative end to end.
• Experience changing a product or engineering decision based on developer feedback.
• Experience mentoring or helping team members grow.
• Established San Francisco network with relationships among engineers, event organizers, and founders.

Nice to have

• Worked on search or information retrieval systems, or at a search company.
• Understand how indexing, ranking, and relevance tuning work.
• Perform applied research by reading papers and running experiments or benchmarks.
• Built an audience through video or social media like YouTube, livestreams, X, or LinkedIn.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with additional perks.
• Flexible working hours and async-friendly culture.
• High ownership and real impact.
• Open-source, engineering-driven culture.
• Choose your own laptop equipment.
• 401k match.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible PTO policy.

About the company

Qdrant is an open-source vector search engine powering AI applications like semantic search and RAG. It is a remote-first company building retrieval infrastructure for modern AI.