Staff Developer Advocate

The Auth0 Team:

As a Staff Developer Advocate, you will be a strategic leader in empowering developers by shaping and delivering compelling, deeply technical content across various digital channels. You will not only produce high-quality content but also drive the content strategy, identify emerging trends, and influence the overall developer experience. You are a great match if you can demonstrate a strong ability to craft engaging content, coupled with deep technical proficiency, exceptional communication, and a proven passion for anticipating and addressing complex developer needs and trends.

Auth0 secures more than 100 million logins each day for customers worldwide—and were growing fast! To help drive this growth, our mission is to become the customer identity and access management (CIAM) provider of choice for developers building small and large applications. To advance this mission, Developer Relations engages with developer communities to help them adopt Auth0 and advocate on their behalf across Okta.

What youll be doing:

As a Staff Developer Advocate, you will define and execute a comprehensive content strategy, identifying key narratives, formats, and distribution channels to maximize developer engagement and adoption. You will actively champion best practices by engaging with technical communities and mentor junior advocates to elevate team capabilities. You will collaborate closely across Product, Engineering, Developer Advocacy, and Developer Marketing to advocate for developer needs. Additionally, you will proactively identify and solve complex technical challenges to deliver innovative solutions and digital content.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Content Strategy & Creation:
• Collaborate on the development and execution of content strategies to effectively reach and engage developers.
• Develop and share high-quality technical content such as blog posts, tutorials, documentation, videos, and code samples.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise, and engaging content that is easily understood by developers.
• Community Engagement:
• Cultivate and grow relationships with developers and technical leaders through online platforms, championing their needs and driving awareness of our platform/technology.
• Developer Advocacy:
• Advocate for developers needs and pain points within the Auth0 product unit, actively improving the developer experience, with a focus on how this can be addressed through content.
• Proactively collaborate with counterparts in Product and Engineering/Technical teams as a representative of the DevRel team, with a focus on content needs.
• Collaborate on the development and launch of capabilities - reviewing early documentation, SDKs, and product capabilities from a content perspective.
• Bring insights and developer feedback back into the company to inform and shape product development and improvements, with an emphasis on how content can address these.
• Thought leadership
• A proven track record of thought leadership and influencing technical communities through high-impact content, presentations, and community engagement. This includes the ability to identify nascent trends and proactively develop educational strategies around them
• Trend Observation and Analysis:
• Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, and developer community interests to identify opportunities for relevant and impactful content.
• Track the performance of content and analyze key metrics to optimize content strategy and improve engagement.
• Gather and analyze feedback from the developer community to identify content gaps and areas for improvement.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• Technical background or a good understanding of software/application development. Familiarity with identity standards and best practices is a plus.
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns and best practices for integrating identity and security solutions into complex, large-scale applications, particularly within cloud-native or distributed environments.
• A demonstrated passion for creating content that serves the developer community and helps fellow developers get better at their jobs, with the ability to explain and translate complex technology concepts into simple and intuitive communications.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders across engineering, product, and marketing to improve the developer experience and align content strategies with business goals.
• Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to define metrics, analyze data sets, and derive actionable insights to refine content strategy and measure impact.

Wed be incredibly excited if you have:

• Experience in a senior technical content, developer advocacy, or technical customer success role.
• Experience with at least one authentication or authorization protocol (OAuth, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP).
• Understanding of core security concerns within a typical application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF).
• Experience building web, mobile, and IoT applications, incorporating both front and back end languages/frameworks.

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