Developer Relations (DevRel)

JobVista · San Francisco, CA · 1 mo ago

EngineeringFull-time

Location: San Francisco, California, United States · Full Time · Salary: $80,000 – $180,000 · Posted today · Application deadline: October 18, 2026

About the role

We’re hiring a DevRel to own our public community and create unique, engaging content. You are hands‑on: you can debug, give architecture guidance, and jump on calls when needed. You are creative: you can come up with unique, engaging content.

Responsibilities

Manage, support, and grow our public community forum
Create high‑quality short‑ and long‑form content (blog posts, videos, or other formats you excel at)
Provide hands‑on technical help: assist users building apps, debug common issues, provide fixes/workarounds, and hop on calls to unblock them
Run community programs: ambassadors, rewards/recognition, office hours, AMAs, hackathons
Close the feedback loop: triage, categorize, and summarize themes; feed them into roadmap decisions; build lightweight fixes for recurring issues when needed

Requirements

Strong TypeScript skills — you can actually debug and advise
Strong AI skills: prompting, agent workflows, debugging AI behavior
Excellent written and verbal communication
High‑energy, creative, community‑first mindset
Experience running and scaling an online community
Product‑minded: able to take repeated feedback, turn it into product ideas, and build the solution
Great communicator and presenter: comfortable giving demos, talks, and creating videos

Company culture & operating principles

Hercules’ Operating Principles guide how we make decisions every day. We take them very seriously. Most are specific choices we uniquely prioritize and can be learned on the job, but we specifically filter for these principles:

Bias for action: We move with urgency, ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds our learning and delights our customers.
Excellence: Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste, get the details right, and our outputs are exceptionally simple and self‑serve. We’re proud of our work.
Hunger: We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We operate at any level to get things done.
Politely relentless: We persist with courtesy and determination.

Our hiring process reflects these principles: we move with urgency, strive for excellence, and are politely relentless in finding the right fit.

Pay

USD 80,000 – 180,000 per year

Schedule

Full Time