Senior Developer Advocate
Buffer
- Work style
- remote
- Job type
- full-time
- Experience
- senior
The Senior Developer Advocate role will sit within the Engineering team and work cross-functionally across multiple areas (Engineering, Advocacy, and Marketing) at Buffer. This person will connect deeply with external developers, support our internal teams with technical expertise, and help shape how our API is understood, adopted, and extended. This is an exciting opportunity to own and shape Buffer’s developer experience from the ground up in a new area of the business: building a strong developer community and ecosystem around our evolving API and platform, where your work directly influences the product roadmap, customer outcomes, and the future of our growing ecosystem.
What you'll do
Own escalated support tickets for API-specific questions and serve as a technical liaison for our customer support team for questions that sit within this domain.
Build and nurture our developer community, including leading engagement with that audience on our Discord server and participating in relevant external developer channels.
Create and publish educational and promotional content such as blog posts, social media threads, technical walkthroughs, and webinars.
Represent Buffer at conferences and industry events, presenting talks, demos, and case studies.
Continuously iterate on and improve developer documentation, working closely with engineering to enhance our overall developer experience.
Build proof of concepts for how third-party developers can integrate with or extend Buffer’s public API.
Identify partnership and co-marketing opportunities with other developer ecosystems and, when relevant, prototype or build integrations on external platforms.
Shape the API roadmap by sharing key insights with our engineering team.
Our tech stack
Our engineering team works across the full stack in a single monorepo.
Frontend:
React and TypeScript
Internal design system (Popcorn) built on top of Radix UI with CSS modules and Storybook
Vite for build tooling
Jest and React Testing Library for testing
Playwright for E2E tests
Backend:
Node.js and TypeScript
GraphQL (migrating away from REST)
MongoDB as our main database
Microservices architecture (consolidating into monorepo)
We also have a legacy PHP backend that we are slowly migrating over to the monorepo
Infrastructure:
AWS with Kubernetes
Feature flags for gradual rollouts
Datadog for monitoring and observability
AI/ML:
Integration with various LLM providers
Building internal abstractions for AI features
As a Senior Developer Advocate, you don't need to be actively coding every day, but you should be comfortable engaging in technical discussions, understanding architectural decisions, and occasionally diving into code to build prototypes or integrations to unblock or guide external developers or teammates.
Interview process
Here's what our hiring process for this role is like.
Application. When submitting your application and resume, tell us why you want to join Buffer and take your time. This is your chance to make a strong first impression.
Hiring manager interview. Chat with Amanda, Staff Product Manager, and Raf, Engineering Manager, to understand what it takes to work at Buffer. This is an opportunity for both sides to get to know each other and determine whether our expectations align.
Asynchronous assignment. We'll send you 60-minute asynchronous assignment to help us understand how you think about technical details, feedback, and communication.
Team interview with Engineering and Advocacy Team. Interview with an engineer and advocate focused on technical skills and your developer advocacy experience and approach.
Interview with Senior Leadership. At this stage, you’ll have a chance to discuss your experience and ambitions for a future role at Buffer with our Director of Engineering, Mike, and our VP of Customer Advocacy, Åsa. This is a great chance for you to gain a deeper understanding of Buffer's strategy and work processes.
Interview with Chief of Staff and CEO. Our final interview with Caro, our Chief of Staff and Joel, our CEO.
Collaboration period. This is an experimental stage for us where you would work with us over a few days (fully paid). The goal is to see how it feels to work in the team, both for us and for you. You'll meet a few bufferoos, and invite you to a Slack where you'll collaborate with the team.
Offer. We wrap it up with an offer and discuss the final details. We would align on the last bits before we make you part of the Buffer team 💛
A software engineer who has transitioned into developer relations or developer advocacy. You've been doing developer relations or developer advocacy already for a number of years.
Someone with deep API experience, who's comfortable writing technical content, building prototypes, and debugging API workflows.
A natural communicator who can make complex topics approachable through writing, video, and live presentations.
A connector who enjoys engaging with online developer communities and can authentically represent Buffer’s culture and values.
Comfortable operating cross-functionally across engineering, marketing, and support.
Proactive in identifying opportunities to expand Buffer’s footprint within the broader developer ecosystem.
Self-driven, empathetic, and committed to creating a welcoming environment for all developers engaging with our tools.
Previous experience in customer support or service roles, with a strong track record of advocating for customers and resolving complex issues with care and clarity. You have a deep commitment to customer experience and a high degree of empathy for the end-to-end user journey, consistently looking for ways to reduce friction and improve every touchpoint.
You have project management strength. You can lead teams to ship MVPs, get early data and feedback, and make customer-centric decisions
You have a creator mindset. You have a personal connection to content creation, social media, or creator tools. It's a big plus if you used Buffer before and care about the experience
You communicate exceptionally well in writing. You have strong written communication skills for distributed collaboration
You have a growth mindset. You are humble, comfortable with ambiguity, and committed to continuous learning
Offers Equity
We strive for Buffer’s approach to salary, equity, and benefits to be:
Transparent
Fair
Simple
Generous
This role is no longer accepting applications.