Developer Advocate
Snowflake
About the Role
Snowflake is seeking an early-career Developer Advocate passionate about developer experience, AI, data, and education. You will empower builders to discover, adopt, and succeed with Snowflake's AI and developer portfolio by creating technical content, demos, workshops, and community programs. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Community, and field teams, and funnel developer feedback back into product development.
Key Responsibilities
- Create technical content and adoption assets:
- Build clear, accurate documentation, quickstarts, tutorials, code samples, demos, and reference applications for developers and data practitioners.
- Transform complex AI, data, and application-development concepts into approachable, practical learning experiences.
- Contribute reusable patterns, templates, and playbooks to assist builders from initial use to production.
- Support launches and developer programs:
- Assist in preparing priority AI and developer products for launch by testing developer journeys, identifying friction points, and creating day-one enablement assets.
- Design and deliver workshops, hackathons, talks, and hands-on labs for customers, partners, students, and developer communities.
- Collaborate with field and go-to-market teams on customer-ready demos, solution briefs, presentations, and technical walkthroughs.
- Connect developers and product teams:
- Gather feedback from the community, customers, field teams, support, documentation, and product usage.
- Synthesize feedback into clear developer insights.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to enhance onboarding, documentation, samples, APIs, tools, and the overall developer experience.
- Evaluate work and improve content and programs using qualitative feedback and adoption metrics.
- Represent Snowflake in the developer ecosystem:
- Participate authentically in developer, data, AI, and open-source communities through events, forums, technical content, and contributions.
- Build relationships with practitioners, identify challenges, and facilitate their success with Snowflake and the broader ecosystem.
- Share emerging developer needs, tools, and practices with internal teams.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Strong technical foundation and experience building software products, demonstrated through roles, internships, coursework, open-source contributions, or personal projects.
- Hands-on experience with developer tools:
- APIs
- SDKs
- CLI tools
- Source control
- CI/CD
- Familiarity with modern AI development, including:
- Prompting
- Grounding
- Evaluation
- RAG
- Agents
- Tool calling
- LLM APIs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
- Comfort presenting and facilitating technical sessions for diverse audiences.
- Bias for action and ownership: ability to structure ambiguous problems, learn quickly, seek feedback, and iterate.
- Strong collaboration skills and experience working across technical and non-technical teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, Data Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Bonus Points
- Internship, co-op, or project experience as a software, data, ML/AI, or solutions engineer.
- Experience with Snowflake or another cloud data platform.
- Understanding of data and analytics workflows, such as:
- SQL
- ELT/ETL
- Notebooks
- dbt
- Data science
- Application development
- Contributions to open-source projects, technical blogs, documentation, videos, or developer communities.
- Experience organizing hackathons, meetups, workshops, student clubs, or other technical community programs.
- Experience measuring content, community, or product adoption using quantitative and qualitative signals.