Senior Developer Advocate

Hybrid

Responsibilities

Demonstrate, don't pitch : build and show small, credible demos on AgentControl and the LaunchDarkly platform, and hold your own when the technical questions get hard

The developer community is deciding right now what the AI era of software looks like, and much of that conversation happens in person: meetups, demo nights, hackathons, and hallway conversations across the city.
Show up consistently : attend Bay Area developer events several times a week (meetups, demo nights, hackathons, conferences), building real relationships with AI and platform engineers over months, not transactions over days
LaunchDarkly has a consistent, welcome presence in the rooms where the AI developer conversation is happening, and you decided which rooms those are
What you bring back changes decisions: a play gets adjusted, positioning gets sharpened, a docs gap gets prioritized because of what you surfaced
Experience in developer advocacy, community, solutions engineering, customer success, or another customer-facing technical role
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the ability to attend events in person several times a week, including evenings
Already active in, or genuinely drawn to, the AI developer scene
Familiarity with feature management, experimentation, observability, or agent frameworks Pay:

Earn the right to convene : over time, organize gatherings around problems developers actually have, not around LaunchDarkly as a brand
A strong written voice: your recaps make people who weren't in the room feel like they missed something Bonus if you have:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones for Level 4:
Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $ 152,000 - $210,000 **
Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $ 137,000 - $189,000 **
Zone 3: All other US locations - $ 129,000 - $178,000 **
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Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
*Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.
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LaunchDarkly is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
You'll own our Bay Area presence: which rooms we're in, how often we're there, and what we do with what we learn.
That means being in those rooms consistently, as a genuine participant: building long-term relationships with the practitioners shaping how agentic software gets built, bringing their signal back to LaunchDarkly, and showing them, credibly and only when it's relevant, how runtime control changes what they can ship.
It's a role for someone who would be going to these events anyway. Responsibilities:
Listen more than you talk : bring back structured signal on what practitioners are building, where they're stuck, and how they talk about agents, releases, and runtime control
Add to the conversation : write event recaps and practitioner-grade content that people in the community actually want to read, rather than broadcasting at them
Feed the team : route relationships, signal, and opportunities to the owners who can act on them, with enough context attached to act What Success Looks Like:
Organizers invite you to speak rather than fielding our pitches, and practitioners seek you out at events
Your recaps get shared by people who weren't in the room, and your content draws an audience without paid distribution
You've killed or redesigned at least one part of your own plan based on the evidence, and told us afterward