About us
We’re an early stage, well-funded startup team with a proven track record of shipping open source software with global adoption. We put a premium on respectful, clear, and complete communication, and we expect each other to be creative, curious, effective, and empathetic.We believe deeply that the right tools and abstractions enable not just technological transformation, but also organizational transformation. We strive to put the user and their hard work at the center of our decision making. In practice, that means we are looking for engineers who want to write clean APIs and helpful error messages, and who always try to understand user needs when designing a new system.All of our open source work is done publicly.
You can gain context about how we collaborate as a team and the problems we work on by exploring GitHub and looking at our code reviews.
About the role
Dagster is seeking a passionate Developer Advocate to join our dynamic Developer Relations Team. The successful candidate will report to the Head of Data Engineering and Developer Relations and play a pivotal role in building and nurturing our community. You will help grow the development of a vibrant open-source community around Dagster, our data orchestration product. You will also have the opportunity to help us shape the product roadmap and features, serving as a critical voice of the customer.The Developer Relations team helps empower data engineers to discover, adopt, and master Dagster as a data platform.
We help developers discover Dagster’s capabilities, provide clear and comprehensive resources to help them evaluate Dagster for their use cases, develop and maintain a rich ecosystem of education content, and help facilitate seamless integration of Dagster into their existing stacks with easy-to-understand reference documentation and guides.This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York City, and Minneapolis. We have team members all over the U.S. and we are hiring fully remote candidates in the U.S. Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful. And if you’d rather not work from home, we’ll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if you’re fully remote.
Responsibilities
- You will help execute against the high-level community growth strategy and its day-to-day execution.
- You will play a critical role in adoption of Dagster OSS and Dagster Plus along the developer journey, through events, content, documentation, demos, webinars, and videos.
- You will create opportunities for users to learn how to use Dagster, show off their Dagster projects, build connections within the community, and share product feedback.
- You will represent Dagster at conferences, meetups and trade shows, while also being involved in the day-to-day community interaction on Slack, Github, and wherever else our developers interact with us.
- You will have autonomy in scoping, prioritizing, and executing on projects, with the north star of serving the growing Dagster community.
Qualifications
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely.Previous experience as a data practitioner, such as a data engineer, ML engineer, analytics engineer, or data analyst.Previous experience producing engaging content targeted toward developers, such as blog posts, videos, webinars, livestreams, or events.Strong understanding of and experience in the data community.Be a self-driven individual who can carry a project from inception to completion.You belong here
We are committed to building an inclusive team and an open source community where no one feels out of place. We know that teams with diverse backgrounds state their assumptions more explicitly, think more rigorously, and build better software. Plus it's more fun and interesting to work with a wide variety of perspectives.
You should apply to work at Dagster Labs if you want to work in, and help to build and strengthen, a high-performing software development environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome.
Our Stack
Dagster is built in Python and TypeScript to work on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Our cloud product runs on AWS and Postgres. We integrate with a wide range of databases, data warehouses, orchestration engines, compute substrates, and cloud services.
The estimated annual cash salary for this role is $125,000 - $170,000
Other resources:
- The launch of Dagster blog post
- Launching Dagster Cloud to GA blog post
- The Data Engineering Impedance Mismatch blogpost/presentation
- What Dagster Believes About Data Platforms
- Software-Defined Assets blog post, Data Council talk, and animated explainer
- The April 2024 Dagster+ launch event
