Developer Advocate, AWS Developer Experience
Are you a developer who loves sharing knowledge and building bridges between technology and people? Do you get excited about explaining complex technical concepts in simple terms? Are you passionate about helping other developers succeed and growing developer communities? If you're a natural teacher with deep technical expertise and excellent communication skills, we want to talk to you!
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Developer Advocate to join our team in Bangalore, India. In this pivotal role, you'll spearhead our developer engagement efforts across the region, driving adoption of AWS services and fostering a thriving developer ecosystem.
Key job responsibilities
As a Developer Advocate, you'll create engaging technical content, including tutorials, blog posts and sample applications, that helps developers succeed with our platform. You'll represent our company at conferences, meetups, and online events, delivering technical talks and workshops that educate and inspire. You'll gather developer feedback to help shape our product roadmap and work closely with our engineering teams to ensure our platform meets real developer needs. Your role will involve building and nurturing relationships with developer communities, contributing to open-source projects, and establishing yourself as a trusted voice in the technical community.
A day in the life
Your typical day might begin with reviewing and responding to developer questions on our community forums, followed by working on a technical blog post about a new feature. You might spend the middle of your day collaborating with the product team on upcoming features, sharing insights gathered from the developer community.
After lunch, you could be recording a tutorial video demonstrating best practices, then joining a virtual meetup to give a technical presentation. Later, you might work on code samples for an upcoming workshop or participate in planning discussions for a developer conference. Throughout the day, you're engaging with developers on social media, sharing insights, and staying current with industry trends while maintaining your technical expertise through hands-on coding.
About the team
The Developer Experience team's mission is to explore the future of development so that we can help developers navigate a path to that future. Our goal is to inspire developers around the world. We show them how to practically use new technologies to build efficiently in the cloud. We show them new things they are now able to achieve, both in tackling more complex cloud problems and building new solutions that leverage generative AI. We earn trust with developers by being authentic, and by being practitioners ourselves. We are on an exciting journey together, and not everything is solved yet.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of that empower us to be proud of our . Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on and (CORE) and AmazeCon ( ) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.