Senior Developer Content Advocate, Social & Community (auth0)

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Bellevue, WA · Auth0 DevRel-494

Okta is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate to be the voice of Auth0 in the developer community, focusing on social media engagement. The role involves monitoring developer conversations, responding to trends, creating fast-cycle content, and acting as a feedback channel to product and engineering teams. The ideal candidate has a strong public presence in developer circles, technical credibility, and excellent communication skills, with a focus on identity and security.

What you'd actually do

  1. Dedicate time to actively monitoring developer conversations on platforms like Twitter/X, Reddit, and Hacker News. You will identify emerging trends in identity/security and mentions of Auth0, converting these insights into immediate opportunities. This could range from drafting a thoughtful reply or a "hot-take" blog post to commissioning a video explainer or routing critical feedback to the Product/Marketing teams.
  2. Be the primary voice representing Auth0 in real-time developer conversations on X, as well as Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, and other platforms where developers gather. Post regularly, engage authentically, and build a consistent presence that developers actually want to follow.
  3. Systematically capture developer pain points, feature requests, praise, and criticism from public conversations and route them to Product, Engineering, and Marketing with context. You are the bridge between what developers say in public and what the company does next.
  4. Write threads, short posts, quick takes, and lightweight explainers that ride the moment. When a topic is trending, you should be able to ship something valuable within hours, not weeks. Longer-form content (blog posts, video scripts) is secondary but expected when the moment calls for it.
  5. Work closely with Product, Engineering, Developer Relations, and Marketing to ensure that what you're seeing externally informs what we build and how we talk about it. Help shape launch strategies, messaging, and positioning based on real community signal.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years in developer advocacy, developer relations, or a community-facing technical role
  • sustained public engagement with developer audiences
  • active, authentic presence on X (and ideally other developer platforms)
  • meaningful engagement in technical conversations
  • Technical Credibility (JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, authentication flows, API design, web architecture)
  • Speed and Editorial Judgment
  • Exceptional written English
  • natural voice on social platforms
  • clear, opinionated when appropriate, technically honest, and never corporate communication

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Identity protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML)
  • web security best practices
  • Experience producing short-form video
  • Network in the Ecosystem (JavaScript, full-stack, or security communities)

What the JD emphasized

  • own Auth0's presence
  • primary voice
  • own
  • Systematically capture
  • bridge between what developers say in public and what the company does next
  • ship something valuable within hours, not weeks
  • primary mode
  • 4+ years in developer advocacy, developer relations, or a community-facing technical role
  • clear evidence of sustained public engagement with developer audiences
  • active, authentic presence on X (and ideally other developer platforms)
  • track record of engaging meaningfully in technical conversations
  • developers should never feel like they're talking to a marketer
  • assess whether something is worth responding to, draft something sharp, and ship it; all within a short window
  • Exceptional written English with a voice that feels natural on social platforms, clear, opinionated when appropriate, technically honest, and never corporate.