Sr. Developer Advocate, Delta Lake

Databricks

Summary

This job involves being a Developer Advocate for Delta Lake OSS, where you will engage with the external developer community, share knowledge through various channels, and work closely with the open-source community building Delta Lake.

What you'll do

Generate awareness for Delta Lake by establishing it as a leading technical solution through regular speaking engagements at industry events.
Expand Delta Lake meetups and user groups to attract tens of thousands of participants, fostering a thriving community.
Foster enthusiasm for Delta Lake by leveraging creativity and innovation to create engaging experiences and content, welcoming novel perspectives and stimulating discussions.
Enable data engineers to excel in building their data infrastructure with Delta Lake.
Empower data engineers to reach their objectives and share their success stories efficiently.
To facilitate the widespread adoption of new Delta Lake features, create high-quality educational resources such as videos, sample notebooks, tutorials, and blog posts.
Advocate for the needs and desires of the Delta Lake community within Databricks, ensuring their voices are heard and considered by other teams.
Provide robust support for users across platforms like Slack, StackOverflow, and online communities to stay attuned to their feedback and requirements.
Work on Delta Lake example notebooks in the delta-examples repo

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a software developer and subject matter knowledge of solving data engineering problems at all scales
Experience with Scala, Python, and SQL
You are a leader in the Delta Lake data practitioner communities
Experience working with and contributing to open source communities
Experience managing, operationalizing, and engaging with developer communities, running user groups, or holding global meetups
You are a solid communicator with experience writing about, teaching, and speaking about complex technical topics
You have empathy and understanding of developer personas and can apply that to the design and development of good experiences in tutorials, notebooks, communities, and more