Senior Developer Advocate

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About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

Join GitHub’s Developer Relations team to help make software development more joyful, inclusive, and impactful for developers around the world. Whether someone is just starting their coding journey, contributing to open source, building a startup, or shipping at scale in an enterprise, our job is to show up for them with care, clarity, and creativity.

We’re looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join our globally distributed, high-trust team. In this role, you’ll serve as a bridge between the developer community and GitHub’s product, engineering, and marketing teams, elevating community insights into action and helping developers do their best work with GitHub. You’ll also play a key role in building trust, growing the ecosystem, and amplifying developer voices both inside and outside of GitHub.

Responsibilities

• Understand and represent developers: Deeply understands the relevant communities and their common experiences and goals, industry trends, technological developments, and key competitors by meeting with community members, attending events, and engaging on social media. You’ll stay close to the pulse of the ecosystem — especially open source and emerging tech, and bring empathy, insight, and curiosity to every interaction.
• Build trusted relationships: Acts as a trusted ambassador between tech communities and GitHub’s product and marketing teams. You’ll become a familiar presence in developer communities, contributing back through authentic engagement, samples, and best practices that spark new projects and strengthen trust.
• Amplify feedback and impact: Collects and seeks out feedback from technical audiences and stakeholders regarding product usage, user experience, and technical issues, and communicates actionable insights clearly to product and engineering teams. You’ll identify patterns, prioritize needs, and advocate for both urgent fixes and long-term product investment.
• Create content that resonates: Scopes and develops impactful content assets (e.g., code, videos, articles, presentations, demos) and represents GitHub at events, conferences, and community gatherings. Your work will help developers go from “I don’t get it” to “I’m all in.”
• Mentor and contribute internally: Builds and enhances trust with internal teams, consistently raising the bar on product improvement plans and developer advocacy. You’ll mentor advocates, contribute to documentation and strategy, and represent GitHub in working groups or advisory boards.
• Drive community growth and problem solving: Listens to community needs and responds with useful information, resources, and upskilling opportunities to positively impact growth. Proactively identifies unaddressed issues and diligently works to resolve or escalate them to ensure quality service.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology (IT), software development, or other related work experiences

• OR Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology (IT), or software development, or other related work experiences

• OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep familiarity with developer communities and the open source ecosystem, including their tools, values, and pain points
• Proven track record of content development (talks, demos, samples, videos, articles) that inspires and educates developers
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to adapt your voice across formats, audiences, and platforms
• Experience translating community feedback into actionable insights for product, engineering, or leadership teams
• Recognition in the developer ecosystem as a speaker, thought leader, or open source contributor
• Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, or marketing teams in a tech company or startup
• Passion for mentoring and enabling others, whether inside your team or out in the broader community
• Familiarity with GitHub, Git, and the broader DevOps or DevEx ecosystem

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $96,400.00 - USD $255,700.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We're also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world's software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We're remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are-because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let's change the world, together.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!