Staff Developer Experience Engineer

About the Job

We're building a world-class developer relations team at Xata to bring our powerful product to the masses. The product aims to be the go-to serverless database for the web that offers automatic scaling, branches at the database level, zero-downtime migrations, ACID transactions, a built-in search engine, analytics, and more.

How We Work

• We're meeting-light and asynchronous by default.
• We encourage everyone to take initiative and lead by example.
• We use our product at every opportunity.
• We are community-driven and deeply care about the success of our users and customers.
• We all work remotely, usually from home, and we meet in person a couple of times per year in a nice location. We have employees in Germany, Spain, Belgium, the US, Sweden.

Having founders with management experience from Elastic, Xata is well-financed by amazing investors, including Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel), Shay Banon (co-founder and CEO of Elastic), Neha Narkhede (founder of Confluent), Elad Gil, Christian Bach, and Mathias Biilmann (founders of Netlify), and many others.

We Care About Work-life Balance

Even though we are a small team and an early-stage startup, we are well-financed and with a very long runaway. This allows us to think long-term, both in terms of strategy and building a healthy company culture. We know building a lasting company is a marathon, not a sprint.

We don’t track hours and we don’t count PRs. We evaluate productivity and quality over a 3-4 months period. All roles come with 30 days of paid vacation.

We Care About Diversity In Tech

If you come from an underrepresented background in tech, if you're a woman or a person of color, we strongly encourage you to apply. We are challenging ourselves to build a healthy culture that allows us to build innovative and successful products.

Our founder, Monica Sarbu, founded a non-profit organization called Tupu that helps tech companies support diversity in tech through mentorship.

Job Responsibilities

• Create, curate, and maintain a repository of sample web applications using Xata
• Build and maintain integrations and migrators to help users get their data from other platforms (AirTable, Notion, Postgres, etc.) into Xata
• Write and review technical blog posts
• Actively refine, discuss, and work on the developer experience of Xata open source tools (SDK et al)
• Uses regularly and help QA and maintain the OpenAPI spec and the API reference on the docs site
• Produce and perform high-quality content such as conference talks, blog posts, and online videos

Skills & Experience

• Excellent communication skills in English, both nonverbal and verbal; verbal including oral and written
• Experience with web development, preferably in the Jamstack space
• A body of work displaying content you've created, including conference talks, blog posts, and online videos

Nice to haves:

• Experience in a similar previous role
• Strong eye for UI design and TypeScript experience
• Strong understanding of systems design and databases at scale

Job Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Friendly and diverse work environment
• Flexible schedule, work from anywhere you are productive
• Budget for laptop + monitor
• 30 vacation days

We're eager to hear from you and if you decide to apply, we're rooting for you!