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Remote Developer Relations Engineer jobs

6 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Developer relations engineers are software engineers whose users are outside developers building on a company's platform. Compared with a developer advocate, the job leans further toward code: writing and maintaining SDKs, sample applications, reference integrations and documentation, and fixing the rough edges developers hit. Speaking and community work are part of it, but shipped code is the main output.

About the Developer Relations Engineer role

What the work looks like

  • Build and maintain open source sample apps, client libraries and starter templates in several languages.
  • Write and correct API reference documentation and code snippets, and keep them working as the API changes.
  • Reproduce bugs reported by external developers and file or fix them with the product engineering team.
  • Help strategic partners and early adopters integrate, sometimes by pairing on their code.
  • Review new APIs before launch for usability and consistency from the outside developer's point of view.

What employers ask for

  • Strong coding in several mainstream languages
  • API and SDK design
  • Open source maintenance on GitHub
  • Technical documentation and code samples
  • Debugging third-party integrations
  • Developer community support and speaking

Doing this job remotely

The work is code and documentation in public repositories, done with a developer community that is itself online, so remote arrangements are common. Supporting developers and partners worldwide spreads questions across time zones. Travel to conferences and partner sites exists but is usually lighter than for advocates whose main job is speaking.

Where it comes from and where it leads

These engineers come from software engineering, often after working on APIs or open source, or from solutions and support engineering. They move on to senior and staff developer relations roles, developer experience or SDK teams, product management or developer relations leadership.