diagrid - Developer Advocate

• Grow the Dapr OSS Community: Drive contributor growth, engagement, and adoption metrics across GitHub, Discord, and other channels. • Moderate & Nurture the Ecosystem: Actively moderate the Dapr Discord (and future community platforms), answer technical questions, recognize contributors, and foster a welcoming, high-signal environment. • Create Compelling Content: Write high-quality blog posts for the Dapr blog and Diagrid Catalyst, produce tutorials, architectural guides, and sample applications showcasing Dapr + AI agents, workflows, state management, service invocation, and more. • Lead Webinars & Live Sessions: Proactively plan and deliver technical webinars, workshops, and live demos on a regular cadence. • Manage YouTube & Video Presence: Own the Dapr/Diagrid YouTube channel — script, record, edit, and publish videos, demos, and recordings of community events. • Coordinate Events & Meetups: Help organize and host Dapr Meetups, Dapr Days, conference talks, and community events in the Bay Area and globally (with travel as needed). • Build Diagrid Demos & Tools: Create sample applications, starters, and reference architectures that demonstrate best practices for Dapr in production and AI agent use cases. • Gather Feedback & Influence Product: Act as the voice of the developer community — surface friction points, feature requests, and success stories to Engineering and Product teams. • Represent Diagrid publicly: Speak at conferences, participate in podcasts, engage on social media (X, LinkedIn, etc.), and be a trusted advocate for Dapr and Diagrid. • Have prior Developer Relations, Developer Advocate, or Community Manager experience. • Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with strong hands-on knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, or microservices. • Are deeply familiar with Dapr (or similar projects like Temporal, Camunda, Orkes, etc.) and excited about its future in the AI agent era. • Love creating content and have a track record of blogs, videos, talks, or open-source contributions that gained traction. • Excel at community building — you’ve moderated Discords/Slack, grown OSS projects, or run successful meetup groups. • Are a strong communicator who can explain complex topics (stateful workflows, actor models, sidecar architecture, LLM orchestration) clearly and enthusiastically. • Enjoy shipping code publicly and building demos with Python, Go, TypeScript, or .NET. • Thrive in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and evolving priorities. • Are based in the San Francisco Bay Area. • Speaking experience at conferences (KubeCon, Microsoft Build, etc.). • Experience with AI agents, LangChain/LlamaIndex, or workflow orchestration. • Existing relationships in the cloud-native or AI developer communities.