About the Job

Quickwit, Inc. is the company behind Quickwit, the fastest search engine on cloud storage. Founded in late 2020 and incorporated in the U.S., the company has raised a seed round from two VC firms and comprises 6 engineers. Paul Masurel, the CEO and CTO of Quickwit, is the creator of tantivy, a highly performant search engine library written in Rust that has rallied a great community of users since its inception.

Our strategy is bottom-up developer adoption, driving revenue through commercial licenses and distribution partnerships. Developers are our users; companies are our paying customers.

In the longer term, we want to provide paying enterprise features (security, encryption,…) and eventually have a cloud offering.

Over the last 2 years, we’ve gathered a growing community:

• 4k+ GitHub stars on Quickwit and 8k+ stars on Tantivy.
• 115k blog post views.
• 150+ instances running Quickwit daily.
• 150k+ Docker image pulls.

We’re hiring a Developer Advocate to take the reins of content creation and community management to boost our growth:

• You will define our content and social media strategy and execute it with the team's help; we want everyone in the company involved in writing the documentation and/or technical content.
• You will develop relationships with developers from different backgrounds: from young developers discovering the search domain to more experienced developers looking to scale their search and analytics engine to petabytes efficiently.

Job Responsibilities

• Improve the overall product experience: identify gaps (documentation, APIs, CLI, low-hanging fruit features) and fix them or surface those issues to the dev team.
• Educate the world on Cloud-Native Search and Analytics.
• Writing, editing, and managing content (articles, tutorials, video demos/walkthroughs, engaging demos and experiments…) to engage developers at scale on our social media, blog, newsletters…
• Coordinating content produced by the team.
• Producing high-quality documentation.
• Owning the content calendar and ensuring we are publishing content every week.
• Talking to relevant conferences (FOSDEM, KubeCon, local meetups, …)
• Grow our audience. We already had some success on Twitter, Reddit, and Hackernews. You will define the strategy for social media; your responsibilities will include the following:
• Driving adoption of Quickwit via our social channels (Twitter, Reddit, and HackerNews).
• Organizing new product or feature launches.
• Experimenting with new social channels.
• Engage with our users. Quickwit has a Discord server with 500+ members, and we have dozens of contributors on Quickwit and Tantivy repositories. You will be responsible for:
• Growing our Discord server.
• Organizing community events like Streaming events, IRL dinners, meetups, etc
• Establishing strong relationships with Quickwit users who help to spread the word about Quickwit.
• Capturing feedback, feeding it back into our roadmap, and conveying our roadmap and progress back to the user community to close the loop.
• Track performance.
• Improving and monitoring the list KPIs to track: GitHub stars, the number of instances running Quickwit…

Skills & Experience

• You have experience as a professional software engineer.
• You can create clear and creative technical writing and demonstrate this by sharing long-form writing samples if required.
• You have experience producing and managing content on various channels.
• You are excited to speak with users and advocate for their needs.
• You are comfortable presenting to large developer audiences.
• You are fluent in written and spoken English.

Bonus points​:

• Experience building and managing open-source communities.
• Experience in observability and/or search domain.