Sr Developer Advocate - Product

About the Role

Cadence is a modern open source microservice orchestration service used at Uber and by many other major companies. It’s the backbone technology for more than 1000 services at Uber and powering billions of executions every month. It’s the modern way of creating reliable and scalable distributed systems. Please apply if you are interested in contributing to such cutting edge technology.

We are looking for a developer advocate to support other developers to increase developer efficiency by working with engineers across Uber to help them build Cadence-based services successfully, creating and improving resources to educate users and building a developer community of Cadence users.

To get more information about us you can visit our website (https://cadenceworkflow.io/), search numerous public blogs and videos prepared about Cadence.

What the Candidate Will Do:

• Build and grow the Cadence developer community through technical content, talks, workshops, and events.
• Help developers understand, adopt, and successfully use Cadence in production.
• Create hands-on examples, demos, tutorials, and other technical resources for Cadence users.
• Engage with the open-source community through GitHub, Slack, meetups, conferences, and other channels.
• Work closely with Cadence engineers and users to identify gaps, gather feedback, and improve the developer experience.
• Represent Cadence at technical conferences and community events.

• Help shape Cadence's developer advocacy strategy and roadmap.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, developer relations, developer advocacy, or a related technical role.
• Strong software development experience, with proficiency in Go or another backend programming language.
• Experience building and explaining distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or developer platforms.
• Experience creating technical content, demos, tutorials, or presentations for developers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to engage effectively with open-source communities and software developers.
• Great technical writing skills
• Knowledge on setting up and debugging distributed systems on cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Knowledge of technologies like Cassandra, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, React and programming languages like Go, Java, Javascript
• Experience with building libraries and SDKs
• Understanding of distributed systems and a good understanding of its fundamentals
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Cadence, Temporal, SWF or Durable Functions
• Coding skills with a high bar for quality and scalability
• Familiarity with metrics collection systems like Prometheus
• Experience with Thrift, gRPC, protobuf

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $190,000 per year - USD $211,000 per year.

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $190,000 per year - USD $211,000 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.