Senior Developer Advocate

Overview

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

About the team

At HashiCorp, the Developer Advocacy team acts as a bridge between the developer community and our internal product and engineering teams. Our mission is to empower practitioners by forming meaningful relationships, sharing best practices, and improving the developer experience through feedback and collaboration. We embody HashiCorp’s tao and [2] principles, supporting practitioners in adopting and thriving with our tools while helping internal teams understand the needs of our community.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

Build and deliver compelling presentations, demos, technical blogs, and sample solutions showcasing HashiCorp products.

Prototype technical integrations between HashiCorp products and the broader ecosystem.

Actively engage and support the developer community through events like conferences, meetups, and hackathons.

Represent practitioner needs internally by providing feedback on bugs, creating feature requests, and documenting product friction and potential features in support of improving product.

Maintain a strong social media presence and credibility in channels relevant to developers and operators.

Define, encourage, and drive adoption of HashiCorp tools within the community.

Engage as a technical spokesperson for HashiCorp as requested.

Support peers and community members as needed through code reviews, pairing, and collaborative development—modeling a high standard for team practices.

Communicate project status, issues, and milestones clearly to teams and stakeholders.

Act as a mentor and resource for junior advocates and engineers, sharing technical knowledge and process guidance.

Contribute to product vision discussions and suggest improvements for user experience, design, and documentation.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US

Required technical and professional expertise

Experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code tool.

At least 2 years of relevant experience in Engineering, DevOps, or a related technical field.

Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to engage developers and engineers.

Hands-on experience writing code and contributing to or managing open-source projects.

Familiarity with infrastructure management concepts and operations lifecycle.

Travel to conferences, community events, and meetups as needed.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with other HashiCorp and / or Ecosystem tools (Packer, Vault, Boundary, Nomad, Consul, Kubernetes, etc.).

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Proven experience building and delivering large technical projects independently in a scale industry vertical (Finance, Gaming, Government, or other).

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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