Developer Advocate job title trend since Apr 2011
Engineering · Established · in 1.7% of HN hiring posts · 44 open roles at 25 companies · median $190k · first seen Apr 2011
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 22h ago12 of 25 companies (top 12 shown)
Open roles
8 of 44; company pages list the rest| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Senior Developer Advocate GitLabRemote, Canada; Remote, United States$115k to $194k | GitLab | Remote, Canada; Remote, United States | $115k to $194k |
Developer Relations - Enterprise AI LambdaSan Francisco Office (Second St)$188k to $250k | Lambda | San Francisco Office (Second St) | $188k to $250k |
Manager, Developer Relations Engineering TailscaleRemote (United States)$161k to $201k | Tailscale | Remote (United States) | $161k to $201k |
Developer Relations Engineer PrefectRemote$149k to $242k | Prefect | Remote | $149k to $242k |
Developer Evangelist, Technical Content LlamaIndexSan Francisco$130k to $250k | LlamaIndex | San Francisco | $130k to $250k |
Developer Advocate - AI & Developer Experiences SnowflakeUS-CA-Menlo Park$122k to $175k | Snowflake | US-CA-Menlo Park | $122k to $175k |
Developer Advocate - Service Management DatadogCalifornia, USA, Remote; New York, USA, Remote$136k to $170k | Datadog | California, USA, Remote; New York, USA, Remote | $136k to $170k |
Manager, Developer Relations - Open Source DatabricksSeattle, Washington$155k to $213k | Databricks | Seattle, Washington | $155k to $213k |
Share of Hacker News hiring posts
950 posts since Apr 2011 · 0% in 6 monthsSeptember 2026 5 of 256 postings, 2.0%
Related titles
About this title
Represents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.
Also counted: DevRel, developer relations, evangelist
First sighting
...Developers, Front-End Developers, API Developers, VP Eng, Developer Evangelist, Partner Integration Manager, Systems Administrator, and Music...
Median posted salary $190k from 27 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.
Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.