Developer Advocate

About Kestra

Kestra is the universal orchestration platform — open source, declarative, and designed to orchestrate data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems.

Trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide — including JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, FILA, and Crédit Agricole — Kestra orchestrates mission-critical workloads at scale. The open-source project has close to 30,000 GitHub stars, hundreds of contributors, and a fast-growing global community.

In March 2026, we closed a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, with participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo – backed by founders from Datadog, dbt Labs, and Hugging Face.

The Role

We're looking for a Developer Advocate based in Germany to grow Kestra's presence in the DACH region and the broader European developer community. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and community: you'll write code, create content, speak at events, and represent Kestra in conversations with engineers who are evaluating orchestration tools for real workloads.

This is a technical role. You'll need to understand infrastructure, write working examples, and engage credibly with engineers building production systems. We care about depth over polish.

What You'll Do

• Create technical content (tutorials, blog posts, video walkthroughs, live demos) that helps engineers understand how to use Kestra for real use cases — not marketing fluff.
• Represent Kestra at meetups, conferences, and community events across Germany and Europe, with a focus on building lasting relationships in the DACH developer ecosystem.
• Build and maintain demo projects, sample workflows, and integrations that showcase Kestra's capabilities in practical scenarios.
• Engage with the open-source community on GitHub, Discord, and forums — answer questions, triage feedback, and channel user insights back to the product team.
• Collaborate with engineering and product to translate community needs into feature requests, documentation improvements, and better onboarding experiences.
• Grow and nurture a local community of Kestra users and contributors in the German-speaking market.

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on technical background — you've written and shipped code professionally (for instance, in Python, Java, TypeScript, or Go).
• Experience with infrastructure or data tooling: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, or workflow orchestration platforms.
• Strong written and spoken communication in both English and German. You can explain complex technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
• Comfort with public speaking and creating content — you've given talks, written technical blog posts, or built a visible presence in developer communities.
• Familiarity with open-source culture: you understand how developers evaluate and adopt tools, and you're comfortable working in public (GitHub discussions, pull requests, community channels).
• Self-directed and organized. You can manage your own calendar of events, content pipeline, and community initiatives without heavy oversight.

Bonus Points

• An existing network in the DACH developer or data engineering community.
• Past experience as a software engineer, data engineer, or platform engineer.
• Experience in a B2B software or open-source company.
• Familiarity with orchestration or workflow automation tools.
• Experience building developer communities from the ground up.

What You Get

• Real ownership in a globally distributed, technical team.
• Direct exposure to product strategy and company priorities.
• A product used for mission-critical workloads — not demos.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and health insurance.