Developer Advocate - Backstage

Job Description

We are seeking a Developer Advocate to join a high-paced team of engineers, marketers, business developers, and product managers (like a small startup) to test an entirely new technology-focused business line and distribution channel that seeks to meaningfully improve Spotify's gross margin. We’re looking for ways to turbocharge the adoption of an already successful open source project and explore and then scale outstanding commercial models. Are you passionate about empowering developers to move quickly and scaling open source projects? Join us!

What you'll do

• Improve the onboarding and adoption experience of Backstage, by contributing to docs, writing blogs, creating learn content, and influencing engineering decisions
• Drive initiatives to excite engineers and community members to create and improve documentation, learn content, and marketing content to improve onboarding and adoption of Backstage, and plugin development.
• Connect with developers, and adopters to bring back feedback to the core team and Spotify plugin developers
• Advocate for backstage within the broader developer community through speaking, writing, and participation in relevant events
• Excite and inspire Spotify engineers to be part of the Backstage community, to externalize plugins, support, and work with the Backstage community to improve the project and plugins
• Work with stakeholders, to remove friction and unclarities for universal plugin development by Spotify Engineers
• Work with community members to amplify their voices and scale Backstage discovery, and enablement through community leaders
• Participate in adopter conversations to share knowledge and gather feedback

Who you are

• Experience as Developer Advocate, Technical Evangelist, Engineer, Software Developer
• Have a technical background, experience working in Agile organizations, and understanding of software development processes in general
• Experience developing resources to support a developer platform (i.e. documentation, tutorials, sample apps, API client libraries)
• Experience and skills in technical writing and public speaking
• Strong listening and communication skills
• Willing to travel up to 30% of the time

Where you'll be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
• Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone.
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here .

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens. Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service. Apply for this job