Senior Developer Advocate

The role

This person will create technical videos and build open-source demos focused on search, AI/ML, and observability. They will provide feedback to product and engineering teams based on community interactions.

What you will do

• Publish deep-dive videos connecting search, vector databases, and agentic workflows.
• Cover observability with logs, metrics, and traces including the OpenTelemetry perspective.
• Stay up to date with trends in search, AI, or observability.
• Build open-source demos and example applications on GitHub.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch Labs and the YouTube channel.
• Create high-quality technical videos focused on search, AI/ML, observability and Elasticsearch.
• Explore and explain how Elasticsearch integrates with other tools and protocols.
• Prototype and publish sample applications showing end-to-end use cases.
• Bring a creative twist to content creation to engage users and capture audiences.
• Provide feedback to product and engineering teams.

Required qualifications

• Proven track record of creating highly technical and engaging videos.
• Strong technical background and experience in an engineering role.
• Empathy for the community.
• Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.
• Experience working self-driven and self-organizing.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

Benefits

• 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
• Match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Before you apply

• Share your best video work in the application
• An export license may be required if you are located in or are a national of Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), or the

About the company

Elastic is the Search AI Company that enables everyone to find answers in real time using all their data at scale. The Elastic Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500.