Senior Developer Advocate

Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API. With Fauna, developers can simplify code, reduce costs, and ship applications faster by replacing their database infrastructure with a highly productive and programmable data API. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute engine is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure. Itself a serverless offering, Fauna is quick to get started with and lets developers experience freedom from database operations at any scale.

We're disrupting a $60B+ operational database market, growing quickly, and looking to hire, develop and empower the best! You’ll be working with a talented team of people who have built highly successful companies and globally-distributed systems at companies such as AWS, Google, Microsoft, Okta, Oracle, Cloudera, MongoDB, NewRelic and Twitter.

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Product Education Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for helping developers learn and excel at using Fauna to build applications. You will create training guides, workshops, sample applications and other technical content for Fauna customers. 

You will be part of the product team and collaborate with Engineering, Support and Sales in a cross-functional and distributed environment. Your technical background will enable you to work effectively with software development engineers, product managers and other teams.  Your demonstrated ability as a strong communicator will help you as you deliver high-quality technical content.

What You Will Do:

• Create hands-on technical content to help developers become confident with Fauna products

• Collaborate with others to understand customer needs around onboarding and education and create solutions to help them solve those needs 

• Develop code sample, applications, and interactive tutorials that will help developers acclimate quickly, and solve querying and data modeling problems

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in a technical role with hands-on coding experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience

• Proven record of producing accurate, clear, and concise developer-targeted content 

• Ability to write code examples and sample applications with at least one of the following programming languages: Javascript, Go, C#, Python

• Familiarity with databases (relational, document-oriented, key-value stores, etc.), distributed systems, SaaS, or serverless development

• Track record of clear written and verbal communications

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$140,000. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or other benefits which certain roles may be eligible for.

This Employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Why Fauna?

Fauna is a well-funded, high growth startup with the mission to make working with operational data productive, scalable and secure for every software team. We're backed by Madrona Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Addition Capital, CRV, and many Silicon Valley angel investors. The Head of our Board of investors is former Snowflake CEO, Bob Muglia. 

Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in San Mateo and Seattle, Fauna also has a remote employee presence throughout the Americas and Europe. We embrace a hybrid work culture which offers employees the flexibility to work from home or our office locations depending on their geography. In exchange for your hard work and contributions, Fauna provides you with market competitive compensation, meaningful early stage Equity Grant, and a robust benefits plan. 

Building a great company requires talented, passionate, and committed team members. We are relentless in pursuing our mission while working together as one team aligned by our core principles. If you are that type of person who is excited by those pursuits, we want to hear from you! 

Fauna is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  Our company is committed to fair hiring practices, and building a diverse environment for our employees.  You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, citizenship, immigration status, or veteran status.

The Talent Acquisition Team at Fauna works primarily on a direct sourcing model; Fauna does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, directly to hiring managers, or any of our employees.