Developer Advocate

Sent, Inc. is hiring a Developer Advocate in San Francisco, CA (onsite) to serve as the technical voice of the company among developers.

Responsibilities

• Publish technical content on a regular cadence, including tutorials, comparison posts, deep dives, working demos, and sample apps
• Maintain an active personal presence on X, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other dev media channels
• Engage developers on key platforms and grow an audience focused on messaging infrastructure
• Represent Sent at developer conferences and meetups; participate by speaking, running a booth, or doing both
• Host and co-host events and strategic hackathons to embed Sent into the developer ecosystem
• Own the SDK and quickstart developer experience end to end
• Collect and feed friction back to engineering based on what developers encounter
• Run office hours, livestreams, or other formats that help builders engage with the product

Requirements

• At least 4 years working as a developer
• Experience with DevRel, developer marketing, or a public-facing technical IC for 1-2 years within that timeframe
• Ability to ship code; can build a working integration over a weekend and document it clearly
• A real portfolio of public technical work, such as blog posts, repositories, talks, videos, or a following built independently
• Strong writing, including the ability to explain technical flows like webhook signature verification without losing the reader
• Comfort with messaging, telecom, or API infrastructure is a plus, not required

Compensation

• USD 155,000 - 225,000 per year

Benefits

• Meaningful equity with high growth potential
• Top-tier medical, dental, vision fully covered
• 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%
• Unlimited PTO
• New MacBook Pro + Apple Studio Display
• Equinox membership stipend

About Sent

• Sent is infrastructure for sending A2P messages across SMS, WhatsApp, and RCS through a single unified API
• Intelligent routing automates channel selection based on deliverability and cost
• Optimizes for lower cost and global reach without requiring channel-specific integrations

What success looks like

• Produce a steady stream of technical content, including code, demos, posts, videos, and talks
• Show up where developers spend time, including Hacker News, X, Reddit, Discord communities, and GitHub
• Publish practical tutorials, such as guides for sending WhatsApp from Node.js
• Build demos that are shared and reused by developers
• Answer community questions with useful comparisons, including Sent versus Twilio