Developer Relations Engineer job at Canonical
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Vacancy title:
Developer Relations Engineer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Information Technology , Category: Information Technology ]

Jobs at:

Canonical

Deadline of this Job:
30 March 2023  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 07, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
What you will do
• Gain a deep understanding of snaps, charms, debs and Docker images
• Grow the developer community by attracting software developers and ISVs to the platform
• Create content to scale up adoption, demonstrate best practices, and showcase new features
• Provide input to development teams at Canonical based on feedback from ISVs, developers, and the wider community
• Collaborate with software developers, product managers and technical writers
• Write ecosystem specific guides, tutorials, release notes, and white papers
• Curate existing documentation, performing periodic reviews, triage user feedback/bug reports and determine priorities for remedial work
• Engage with the community through various means, including discourse, IRC, social media, conferences, etc.
• Identify relevant influencers and devising plans on how to effectively engage with them
• Deliver training workshops in person and remotely
• Represent the platform via speaking engagements at industry events and community conferences

Who you are
• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are enthusiastic, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have experience with developer tools and open source projects
• You have a clear public record of accomplishments (talks, blog posts, GitHub, Twitter, etc)
• You have interest and experience with two or more of Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, DevOps, software development, testing and QA, package management, container technology
• You can work autonomously and assume full ownership of objectives as needed
• You can be flexible with your time and enjoy working with new technology in a fast-paced environment
• You are experienced working with open source communities and understand the workflow of volunteer contributors

Nice to have
• Experience with community management
• Experience with developer advocacy
• Experience as a software developer
• Examples of contributions to the Ubuntu Community
• Experience with contributing to open source projects

We offer
• Learning and development opportunities and budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority pass for travel

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested and qualified? Go to Canonical on boards.greenhouse.io to apply


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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 30 March 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 07-03-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 07-03-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 07-03-2065
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