Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elastic is the Search AI Company that empowers users to find answers in real time using their data. The Senior Developer Advocate will focus on creating high-quality technical videos and content to engage the community and support users in understanding search, AI, and the Elastic Stack.
Responsibilities
- Publish deep-dive videos that connect search, vector databases, and agentic workflows
- Stay up to date with the latest trends in search and AI to cover what's new and exciting for our users
- Build open-source demos and example applications on GitHub that combine Elasticsearch with developer and AI tools
- Contribute to Elasticsearch Labs, Elastic.co, and our YouTube channel
- Create high-quality technical videos focused on search, AI/ML, and Elasticsearch as a platform. This covers foundational concepts, sophisticated use-cases and research trends
- Explore and explain how Elasticsearch integrates with other tools and protocols in the ecosystems (e.g., LLM creators, frameworks, and Cloud providers)
- Prototype and publish sample applications showing end-to-end Search + AI use cases
- Bring a creative twist to Elastic's content creation to keep existing users engaged and capture new audiences
- Provide feedback to product and engineering teams based on your hands-on experience and community interactions
Skills
- A proven track record of creating highly technical and engaging videos — share your best work with us! This is mandatory in the application
- Strong technical background and experience in an engineering role
- Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues, provide internal feedback to make Elastic's products better, and fix problems where possible
- Comfortable working with a highly distributed team
- Experience working self-driven and self-organizing
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
Benefits
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company Overview
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.elastic.co.Company H1B Sponsorship
Elastic has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 2 in 2022, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.