Developer Advocate

About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today, Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest distributed networks that powers more than 10 trillion requests per month, which is nearly 10 percent of all Internet requests worldwide. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.

Our customers range from Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits to small businesses and budding entrepreneurs. We are working to create a faster, more secure, and more reliable experience for anyone online and given the scale at which we operate, our mission is big. Our team is hard at work shaping the future of the Internet by solving some of its toughest challenges.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!  

About the department

As a Developer Advocate, you’ll establish strong relationships with developers around the world in a scalable way, by crafting great resources to help developers build with Cloudflare, including samples, blog posts, and documentation. You’ll foster developers communities, championing their interests and translating their feedback into actionable product insights.

If you’re passionate about connecting with developers, trying out new frameworks and technologies, and sharing what you’ve learned with the world, we’d love to hear from you.

At Cloudflare we are constantly innovating to make the Internet a better place. We recently launched a serverless platform called workers built on isolates, that is gaining traction on the basis of performance and simplicity. This role represents a great opportunity to contribute to the next generation of computing! Come join us

Responsibilities:

• Create momentum and drive adoption of the platform through your interactions with developers building applications and businesses on Cloudflare.
• Champion Cloudflare’s developer products in person and online by presenting at conferences, writing technical tutorials, publishing articles and videos.
• Build inspiring demos, sample apps, and continuously improve the developer experience of our APIs and SDKs.
• Identify strategic partnership opportunities to grow our developer community.
• Influence the direction of our developer products by gathering insights from our developer community
  

We’re looking for people who are:

• Creative, empathetic, communicative, and clever.
• Confident and comfortable presenting to different types of audiences, large and small.
• Adept at communicating technically complicated topics simply and elegantly.
• Strong hands-on developer who is comfortable with full-stack development.
• Intellectually curious, with great problem-solving skills.
• Happy to travel regularly.
  

You should include these in your application:

• Code you’re proud of.
• Products or projects you’ve worked on.
• Links to your blog or your profile in online communities like GitHub, Twitter, Quora, or Stack Overflow.
• Languages you are fluent in, both human and technical.
• What you find most interesting about Cloudflare

As a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare, you are responsible for walking a mile in the shoes of the developer using Workers and make sure that the developers in the community have a smooth journey and can accomplish their goals. We are looking for a developer who has deployed serverless apps as part of their work previously, has broad familiarity with the serverless ecosystem, and is fluent in JavaScript. The ideal candidate will have at least 2-3 years of experience of engineering or developer relations experience, and is capable as a developer and teacher of technical content. This role is expected to be approximately 70% coding, 20% writing / blogging / documentation, 10% conference presence / other.

We may be doing something different every day, and the flexibility to master all relevant skills on the fly to handle new projects is important. If we begin to support additional programming languages, learning those new programming languages, building a project with them, and writing tutorials and examples using that new language with Workers will be part of the job.

Potential projects include but aren’t limited to: build some cool projects that can be used as code examples, writing integrations with other products, writing technical blog posts and tutorials, supporting external developers and improving their developer experience, teach workshops and help run them, developing and leveraging relationships across the serverless ecosystem and JavaScript ecosystem to increase the reach for Workers. A willingness to rapidly experiment and adjust plans depending on what works is a must.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Track record of building great web applications
• Used serverless technology in production at work
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• 2-3 years experience in software engineering or developer relations

Bonus

• Good programming knowledge
• Broad familiarity with web development languages, dev tools, and the serverless ecosystem
• Experience with teaching students
• Experience with organizing meetups, classes, workshops
• Results-oriented mindset
• Experience with WebAssembly

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Project Athenian: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy policy and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

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