Senior Developer Relations Advocate - Emea

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · Netherlands · Developer Relations

This role is a Senior Developer Relations Advocate for ClickHouse, a company specializing in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The primary focus is on community engagement, content creation, and technical advocacy, rather than direct AI/ML model development or research. The role involves presenting at events, creating technical content, writing code for sample projects, and supporting online communities. While the company deals with AI workloads, this specific role is not directly building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Closely partner with the regional sales and marketing team on advancing our community goals.
  2. Present at events such as technical talks, meet-ups, webinars, demos and trainings for technical and non-technical community members (online and in-person).
  3. Assist with the coordination for relevant conferences, meet-ups and events (online and in-person).
  4. Proactively engage with affiliate communities as a speaker and coordinator of joint events.
  5. Help increase awareness about ClickHouse by creating high-quality content such as videos, blog posts, or podcasts targeted at engineers / technical end users

Skills

Required

  • Technical background and deep familiarity with the data domain as a developer, infrastructure, data engineer, data analyst, etc..
  • Experience with open source technologies and communities, as demonstrated by practical use and prior contributions to these projects
  • Experience sharing knowledge and teaching other engineers about technologies in blogs, recorded videos, meetup and conference talks, training sessions, etc..
  • Excitement for organizing and hosting events, both formal and informal, for community growth
  • Readiness to put yourself out in the community as frequent speaker on technical topics
  • Adept at communicating technically complicated topics simply and elegantly, knowing how to share your vision and expertise with people from various backgrounds and disciplines. Deep empathy for developers learning a new technology.
  • Take initiative and are comfortable giving constructive feedback.

Nice to have

  • Experience and understanding of databases, data stores, data warehouses, and distributed systems would be ideal.
  • Formal experience in developer advocacy, developer evangelism, or developer marketing a plus, but not required.