Staff Developer Advocate

Snyk is looking for a seasoned Developer Advocate to teach developers about security pitfalls of vibe coding, and make Snyk highly popular among developers as the leading AI Security platform. This is a local role based in San Francisco.

Why this role?

Snyk is the leader and market disruptor in developer-first security, helping developers secure their code, their dependencies, containers and application deployments. As software engineering re-shapes with AI, so is Snyk, building an AI-powered platform to secure AI-driven coding, AI-native workflows, and supporting organizations to adopt AI in a trusted and secure environment.

Do you want to join Snyk’s mission in securing the world’s code and make Snyk a popular brand by developers and security professionals?

We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on, self-directed, and high-agency Developer Advocate to actively engage, grow, and build the AI Security Engineering developer community of Snyk users and AI developers. You will actively drive AI security awareness and adoption, powered by Snyk’s AI Security platform, to find and fix security vulnerabilities in applications built with AI. 

As the Snyk Developer Advocate:

Make developers and security experts love and adopt Snyk!

You will deliver AI security workshops that use demo applications and popular coding agents to teach developers how to use AI and how to secure AI-generated code using Snyk’s AI Security platform. You will help developers scale up their security knowledge by developing educational content, such as articles, best practices, tutorials, technology deep-dives, and hands-on sessions, in both written and video formats. You will help developers learn how Snyk’s developer-first AI security platform helps them build applications and stay secure.

What You’ll Do:

• Strategize and actively engage with your community peers and Snyk partners on-site in your geo region to create meetups, hangouts and deliver sessions and workshops on AI Security.

• Build demos and vulnerable applications/processes to show how AI security failures and the significant role that Snyk plays in securing AI-generated code and AI native tools and workflows.

• Track, measure and report on KPIs and department metrics with regards to content performance goals and other DevRel activities you will be participating in.

• Be the in-house SF-based Snyk AI Security domain expert, advising on developer community matters, providing user feedback to product teams, and other subject matter expertise activities.

• Present at events, conferences and community gatherings in the region as well as meet and present to Snyk customers and prospects.

• Collaborate closely with Regional marketing, Content Marketing Managers, and other organizations at Snyk to plan, review and build a high-touch developer engagement strategy and pipeline to best drive the developer community to actionable AI security with Snyk’s products.

• Research-to-content production of security topics that are highly relevant and effective for developers using AI and highlight Snyk AI security products.

• Produce high-quality written and video-based content to engage the developer community.

What You Bring:

• Experience in actively engaging and/or leading highly engaged developer communities.

• Practical and proven hands-on experience in building applications, demos, and supporting engineering related projects to deliver workshop sessions and talks.

• Experience in actively producing high-quality educational content (video preferred, but written is welcome too).

• Practical and rich experience with AI coding agents, AI-related workflows, and AI technologies

• Experience as a hands-on developer in any language ecosystem with a well-rounded understanding of SDLC, Cloud Native applications, and CI/CD practices, preferred in JavaScript, Java, Python, or Go.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience working previously in Developer Relations or similar roles.

It’d Be Awesome If You Also…  

• Are passionate about educating developers and decision makers.

• Are passionate about developer security and genuinely believe developers are key to solving application security issues.

• Are passionate about the role Snyk plays in securing AI-generated code in modern LLM-driven coding workflows.

• Enjoy building in public and sharing your knowledge through blog posts, talks, and other community engagements.

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We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!

About Snyk

Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.

Benefits & Programs

- Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.

- Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development

- Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers

- Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance

- Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances