Senior Developer Advocate

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

About the Role

Developers and community matter. Our users and contributors have helped ensure that the Elastic Stack (including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is more than just code — they are free and open projects that people love to use and love to talk about.

Are you keen on sharing technology with the world and supporting our global user-base? Your activities as a Developer Advocate at Elastic would include:

What You Will Be Doing:

• Foster the Elastic Community in Europe (EMEA), with a local focus on Amsterdam.
• Create technical content around the Elastic Stack such as code examples, talks, blog posts, videos, and demos.
• Speak at virtual and in-person events like conferences, meetups, and lunch & learn sessions in the Amsterdam area and throughout EMEA.
• Answer technical questions on Discuss, Slack, developer forums, social media, and at events.
• Review colleagues' content for technical accuracy.
• Contribute to Elastic repositories or external ones to integrate better with Elastic technologies.
• Help users be successful with Elastic’s stack, solutions, and cloud offerings.

What You Bring:

• Strong technical background and experience in an engineering role.
• Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology — including speaking, writing, and demoing.
• Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues, provide internal feedback to make Elastic’s products better, and fix problems where possible.
• Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.
• A dedicated individual with experience working in self-organizing teams.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with and passion for the Elastic Stack.
• Proficiency in additional language(s) — speaking or programming (like Golang, Python, Java, or Rust).
• Production experience with technologies that complement Elastic’s technologies — from Generative AI to Kubernetes.
• Involvement in past Elastic Community events as speaker or organizer.
• Experience with open source software or commercial open source companies.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic.