Coder is an open-source remote development platform trusted by platform engineers at some of the world’s largest enterprises. As a DevRel Engineer, you’ll shape the experience that helps curious users become active practitioners, contributors, and advocates inside their companies, universities, and home labs.

Responsibilities:

Be a consistent presence in Discord and GitHub by answering questions, unblocking users, and spotting recurring patterns
Support community contributors by helping useful fixes, templates, and ideas move into the registry, docs, or product and engineering backlog
Translate community friction into actionable feedback for product, engineering, docs, and marketing
Track the broader developer pulse across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, and similar channels, then surface relevant signals internally
Balance self-serve support with direct help so users can move quickly, with or without contacting Coder
Curate the registry with a community lens: audit coverage gaps, prioritize what platform engineers need, and keep high-use templates maintained
Create and maintain high-quality first-party templates for key stacks, including Python, Node, Go, Rust, and Java
Build reference templates across Docker, Kubernetes, Proxmox, AWS, and bare metal
Make contributing to the registry easier by improving contributor guides, streamlining reviews, and partnering with engineering on registry server improvements
Review community pull requests quickly and constructively, with clear feedback, reasonable quality bars, and a bias toward getting good work merged
Maintain CI, linting, and automated testing so the registry stays healthy as the Terraform provider evolves
Give talks or run workshops at technical events such as KubeCon, Open Source Summit, SCaLE, FOSDEM, and similar conferences
Build demo environments backed by public GitHub repos so anyone can clone, deploy, and learn from them
Create hardware demos on physical devices such as Raspberry Pi, Intel NUCs, and home lab servers
Produce recorded demos that give sales, marketing, onboarding, and community teams clear walkthroughs of important use cases
Run live product demos at events, meetups, and online, grounded in real user scenarios rather than slides
Collaborate with marketing on content that extends your reach, including blog posts, social clips, podcast appearances, and launch announcements
Audit existing docs and guides for gaps, friction, and stale paths, then fix them through rewrites, restructuring, or net-new content
Own the getting-started experience from install to first productive workspace, with a measurable focus on reducing activation drop-off
Write deep-dive guides for complex scenarios such as Docker-in-Docker, air-gapped deployments, multi-region setups, GPU workloads, and enterprise IdP integrations
Partner with PMs and technical writers to make community-facing docs complete, accurate, and actually usable
Education partnerships with universities, bootcamps, and hackathon organizers that bring Coder into labs and classrooms
Community funds for members building useful projects, including home lab setups, educational tools, and open-source integrations
Home lab licenses that put Coder Premium in the hands of power users and self-hosters who shape community word of mouth
Platform engineering roundtables with senior practitioners to gather feedback, share roadmap context, and build lasting relationships
Bounty programs that reward high-value contributions to the registry, docs, or core tooling
Create end-to-end tutorials for real workflows, including migrating from local development to Coder, setting up AI coding agents, and running ephemeral PR environments
Build and maintain a library of reference deployments that show best practices for common deployment targets
Turn repeated questions into durable resources that help the next user move faster

Requirements:

A software or platform engineering background. You've written code, managed servers, and troubleshot technical systems
Strong practitioner empathy. You can meet developers, platform engineers, self-hosters, and enterprise users where they are
Willingness to travel up to 20%
A tinkering mindset. You look for ways to improve, automate, and simplify, then act on them
PM-like pattern recognition. You can spot recurring signals in community feedback, prioritize what matters, and route insights to the right teams
Bias for action. When something is broken or missing, you fix it. When ownership is unclear, you clarify it fast
Experience participating in technical communities, whether as an active contributor, quiet observer, moderator, or maintainer
Strong technical writing. You can turn a complex process into something a busy platform engineer will actually finish
Comfort using tools that scale your impact, including LLMs, automation, and scripting, without automating away the human presence that makes a community worth joining
Experience speaking at conferences, running workshops, or building an audience around technical content
Experience as a community moderator, support engineer, maintainer, or trusted technical presence in an active community
A recognizable presence in a technical community such as open source, platform engineering, self-hosting, or infrastructure
Familiarity with Coder or other remote development environment tools, including Gitpod, DevPod, or GitHub Codespaces
Prior work on a developer-facing open-source project with an active user community
Exposure to enterprise platform engineering concepts such as SSO, SAML, Vault, Artifactory, and internal developer portals

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