Senior Developer Advocate

About the role

As a Senior Developer Advocate, you will be an influencer in empowering developers by shaping and delivering compelling, deeply technical content across various in-person and digital channels. You will inspire in public speaking settings, help identify emerging trends, and influence the overall developer experience. This role is ideal for someone with a strong ability to craft engaging developer-oriented content, especially about AI, coupled with technical proficiency, exceptional communication, and a passion for addressing complex developer needs and trends.

The Auth0 team secures more than 100 million logins each day for customers worldwide and is growing fast. The Developer-Led Growth team engages with developer communities to help them adopt Auth0 and advocate on their behalf across Okta.

Responsibilities

• Community Engagement:
  • Cultivate and grow relationships with developers and technical leaders through online platforms, championing their needs and driving awareness of our platform/technology.
  • Inspire developers at in-person or remote events, including big industry conferences, panels, meetups, etc.
• Developer Advocacy:
  • Advocate for developers' needs and pain points within the Auth0 product unit, actively improving the developer experience.
  • Proactively collaborate with counterparts in Product and Engineering/Technical teams as a representative of the Developer-Led Growth team.
  • Collaborate on the development and launch of capabilities—reviewing early documentation, SDKs, and product capabilities from a content perspective.
  • Bring insights and developer feedback back into the company to inform and shape product development and improvements, with an emphasis on how content can address these.
• Content Strategy & Creation:
  • Collaborate on the development and execution of content strategies to effectively reach and engage developers.
  • Develop and share high-quality technical content such as blog posts, tutorials, documentation, videos, and code samples.
  • Translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise, and engaging content that is easily understood by developers.

Requirements

• Technical background and hands-on experience. Familiarity with identity standards and best practices is a plus.
• AI tooling and "vibe coding" experience.
• A demonstrated passion for inspiring developer audiences or creating content that serves the developer community and helps fellow developers get better at their jobs, with the ability to explain and translate technology concepts into simple and intuitive communications.
• Demonstrated ability to help drive cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders across engineering, product, and marketing to improve the developer experience and align content strategies with business goals.

Nice to have

• Experience in a developer advocacy, senior technical content, or technical customer success role.
• Experience with at least one authentication or authorization protocol (OAuth, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP).
• Understanding of core security concerns within a typical application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF).
• Experience building web, mobile, and IoT applications, incorporating both front and back-end languages/frameworks.

Pay

The annual base salary range for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area is $165,000 USD - $220,000 USD.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible spending account.
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).
• Equity (where applicable).
• Bonus opportunities.

To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

Schedule

This role includes an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.