Senior Developer Advocate - Volcano

Kong

United States

RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience building and promoting developer tools or platforms.

Best fit for

Candidates with a background in creating technical content and working closely with engineering teams in a fast-moving startup environment
— “This role sits between engineering and the developers we build for”
Individuals who have launched projects or companies from scratch and have a public-facing technical portfolio
— “You've done 0-to-1 work: started a company, joined one early, or launched something from nothing”
Candidates who thrive in small teams and have a strong ability to influence product development through user feedback
— “We're a small team and launched publicly in September 2026”

Things to consider

The role requires being 'customer zero,' meaning you must be comfortable testing and reporting on early-stage product flaws
— “You'll hit rough edges before users do, and engineers should be able to act on your reports”
The position involves significant work with coding agents, which may require adapting to new tools and workflows
— “You can build a working app with Claude Code or similar, debug it when it breaks, and explain what happened”

How to stand out

Showcase your public technical contributions, such as projects, tutorials, or content you've created and shared
— “You've built things in public in the last year and can show us what you shipped and how you told people about it”
Highlight your ability to create educational content, such as videos, templates, or written guides
— “Make video, including YouTube, streams and short demos”
Demonstrate your ability to engage with developers in online communities like Discord, X, or GitHub
— “Spend time where developers ask questions, in Discord, on X and on GitHub”
Showcase your experience in organizing or participating in hackathons and creating joint content with companies
— “Run Volcano hackathons, show up at others, and decide which sponsorships are worth doing”

Pace · VariedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

build and maintain developer community
create and share technical content
drive product improvement

Typical background

developer experiencetechnical writing

Skills & requirements

Required

Developer AdvocacyCoding AgentsTechnical WritingCommunity EngagementVideo Production

Preferred

Hackathon OrganizingDeveloper Platform Experience

Stack & domain

Coding AgentsDatabaseInfrastructureAIDeveloper PlatformsTechnical AccuracyExplanationCommunicationWriting

About the role

Original posting from Kong via Ashby

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?
If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the Role
Volcano (volcano.dev http://volcano.dev) is a cloud for apps built with coding agents. You tell Claude Code, Cursor or Codex what you want, and it sets up the database, auth, functions, storage, realtime and deploys on Volcano without a trip through a dashboard. Most platforms were designed around a person in a console and added agent support later. We started from the agent.
We're a small team and launched publicly in September 2026. Volcano is incubated by Kong and runs as its own company with its own brand.
This role sits between engineering and the developers we build for. You'll build on Volcano constantly, show people what it can do, and bring back what you learn so the product gets better.
What you'll do
Own the Volcano Cookbook: recipes that build real apps on Volcano with tools developers already use, written up with the code, the decisions and the gotchas.
Build templates and examples people can deploy in one step.
Make video, including YouTube, streams and short demos.
Run Volcano hackathons, show up at others, and decide which sponsorships are worth doing.
Work with the companies whose tools appear in our recipes on joint content.
Spend time where developers ask questions, in Discord, on X and on GitHub, and bring what you hear back to the team.
Build the tooling and workflows that let a small team publish more without the quality slipping.
Be customer zero. You'll hit rough edges before users do, and engineers should be able to act on your reports.
Who you'll bring
You've built things in public in the last year and can show us what you shipped and how you told people about it.
You've done 0-to-1 work: started a company, joined one early, or launched something from nothing.
You're technical and fluent with coding agents. You don't need to be a database or infrastructure expert, but you can build a working app with Claude Code or similar, debug it when it breaks, and explain what happened.
You write well. You use AI in your own workflow, and you can tell when output reads like slop.
You like explaining things, whether to a room, a camera or a thread of skeptical replies.
Engineers trust you on technical accuracy.
Bonus Points
An existing developer audience
Hackathon organizing experience
Experience with developer platforms like Vercel, Supabase, Neon or Cloudflare.
About Kong:
Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.

Source: Kong careers (Ashby)