Developer Relations Engineer
Prefectbuilds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms --Prefect OSS,Prefect Cloud,FastMCP OSS,andHorizon-- used for mission-critical workloads.
Our Vision: Prefect will define automation for the context era.
Our Mission: Curate an intelligent context layer that delivers the right information at the right time.
About Prefect
Prefect builds automation for an unpredictable world. The last decade of automation was about protecting workflows from unpredictability; in the agentic era, unpredictability is the point. Our mission is to give people confidence in automated work, whether that work is a mission-critical data pipeline or a fleet of AI agents.
In August 2026, Prefect and Dagster, competitors for eight years, joined forces to build the next generation of automation infrastructure. Today, our ecosystem includes Dagster, the data platform; Prefect, the agent platform; and FastMCP, the leading open-source developer framework for the MCP ecosystem. Together, our open-source and commercial products are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, data innovators, and high-growth technology companies around the world.
We think of our culture as the operating system of the company. We’ve carefully created a supportive, high-performance environment that empowers our team to do the best work of their careers, have meaningful impact, and continue growing personally and professionally. We’re a remote-first team that values high standards, ownership, and thoughtful collaboration.
Role Summary
We're hiring a Developer Relations Engineer reporting to our Chief Growth Officer. You own how developers learn to build with Prefect, Dagster FastMCP and Horizon. That means reference implementations people copy into production, technical content (including video), docs and DX gaps you find by being your own first user, and a public presence on stage, on stream, and in issue threads.
Our Agentic platform, is becoming how enterprises govern all their agent workflows: who can reach which MCP servers, what data flows through them, how usage gets audited, how policy gets enforced. Whoever takes this role will help shape how the world learn about it: the demos, the talks, the reference implementations, while the thing is still being figured out.
This is a generalist role by design. You'll write Python, appear on camera, review docs PRs, and file the bug you just hit, often in the same day.
Time zones: Anywhere in the continental US. We're remote-first. Expect travel for events and a few days a quarter in our recording studio. We have a slight preference for candidates near New York or the Bay Area, but it isn't a requirement.
What You'll Do
In your first year you will:
Ship reference implementations developers copy. Working, maintained examples: MCP servers with production auth, gateway configurations, agentic workflows that do something a person would pay for. The bar is that someone builds on your code in production, not that it demos well.
Teach people about agentic workflows. Take a product being defined in real time and make it understandable through demos, posts, talks, and video that a skeptical senior engineer finds honest. You'll work directly with product and engineering while the thing is still moving.
Make video a channel we're good at. We built a recording studio this year and publish across YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and TikTok. You'd own the technical end: what to build on camera, and how to make a fifteen-minute build watchable.
Improve DX by being the first user. Build with our tools before customers do, then file the issue, send the docs PR, and fix the example.
Represent us in public. Conference talks, PyAI, livestreams, podcast episodes, and participation in MCP and Python AI communities as a practitioner rather than a booth.
Bring the field back in. You'll see what confuses people, what breaks, and what's missing before anyone else does. Turn that into product feedback our engineering team can act on.
Your Qualifications
Must have
6+ years writing software professionally, strong Python desirable. This is an engineering role with a public-facing job attached.
A public body of technical work we can go read: repos, posts, docs, talks, or videos developers used. One excellent thing beats ten mediocre ones, and we'd rather see the artifact than hear it described.
You've built things with LLMs and agents (MCP servers, tool calling, agent frameworks, retrieval) and have opinions about what breaks once it's in front of users.
You're good on camera and on stage, or you've clearly got it in you and can show us something. Comfortable isn't enough; a lot of this job is being watched.
You can run as a team of one. You'll choose what to build, ship it, and tell us honestly whether it landed. Nobody is going to hand you a content calendar.
Nice to have
You maintain or substantially contribute to a popular open-source project.
An existing developer audience: YouTube, X, Twitch, a newsletter, wherever.
Data engineering or orchestration background: Prefect, Dagster, Airflow, dbt. Half our community lives there.
You can hold a conversation with a platform or security engineer about SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and PII without changing the subject. Enterprise governance is where Horizon lives.
Who this role is not for
We'd rather you rule yourself out now than be unhappy in six months.
You're looking to stop writing code. If DevRel is how you'd like to transition out of engineering, this isn't the one. You'll read and write Python or other languages every week.
You want to be a thought leader. We're hiring people who build the thing and then explain it. If your last two years are conference talks with no shipped code behind them, we'll notice.
You need a stable roadmap. One of the products you'd be explaining is being designed while you explain it. That's the fun part or it's the dealbreaker; be honest with yourself about which.
What You'll Get in Return
Base Salary Ranges:
San Francisco Bay Area & NYC Metro: $165,000-$219,000
Washington D.C., Boston, LA Metro, Seattle: $150,000-$194,000
Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, & all other U.S. metros: $149,000-$193,000
Actual base salary within each range depends on the candidate's location, experience, and qualifications. Please keep in mind that equity and benefits are not included in the range provided above. Your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Perks and Benefits:
Remote-first team with flexible-first culture
Equity Stock Options
401(k) with 5% company match (vests immediately!)
Unlimited PTO
Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
Generous Parental Leave
Life Insurance and Disability benefits
$800/month remote work stipend
And that's just the start - for more info check out our benefits and perks on our careers page.
Belongingness at Prefect:
Belongingness at Prefect is our commitment to ensuring mutual power, access, and opportunity among all groups and individuals who make up our community. We operationalize belongingness through actions large and small on a daily basis, but always with the goal that all groups and individuals can contribute as their most authentic self to the evolution of our product, our team, and our community.
Belongingness is also our commitment to bridge with individuals or groups not yet established in our community, acknowledge differences in a way that affirms distinct identities, and allows for a new, more expansive group identity to form.
Equal Opportunity at Prefect:
Prefect is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity/expression), national origin, disability or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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