Originally conceived in Spotify, Backstage is now a leading SaaS and open source platform for building developer portals. Adopted by thousands of companies, Backstage helps customers to restore order to their microservices and infrastructure and enables product teams to ship high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.

Locations

London
Stockholm

Job type

Permanent

We are looking for a creative, passionate, and experienced senior developer advocate to join our Backstage Product Area in Spotify.

Our mission at Backstage is to unleash creativity and innovation for developers, while creating delightful experiences. Through the last couple of years, Backstage has enabled thousands of organizations, including fortune 100 companies, to shift and transform their engineering culture, creating centralized software catalog, standards and single pane of glass for all the developers needs with our different offerings: Open source, plugins and SaaS products.

In this position, you’ll have the opportunity to work with our community and customers, create technical content and inspire platform engineering teams how to revolutionize their developer experience using Backstage.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Developer Advocate, you will work closely with the product and GTM teams as well as our customer to:
Create technical content , from documentation to tutorial videos to inspire customers how to make the most from Backstage
Motivate and empower our customers and community while maintaining relationships with platform engineering champions and find opportunities to collaborate.
Support our sales and partner relationships teams by working closely with customers and partners as part of our beta programs, gather feedback, and support customers in their journey with Backstage.
Speak regularly at meetups, conferences, podcasts and livestreams, presenting and demoing the product and hosting coding sessions with developers and platform engineering champions.
Advocate for our customers and community needs in our product planning, roadmap, future developments.

Who You Are

You have 5+ years of experience in software engineering or developer advocate roles
Strong background in software engineering or DevOps, with knowledge of Kubernetes, CI/CD, and other DevOps tools.
Proficiency in web development with React, TypeScript and Node
Experience in building or integrating developer tools, platforms, or portals.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and enterprise-level integrations.
You are excited about working in a new, fast-paced and innovative space and are passionate about the opportunity to make developers tasks delightful and efficient.
You’re a compelling storyteller who can communicate in succinct and inspiring ways to a variety of audience types and comfortable with public speaking
You are comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple offices and timezones
Background in platform engineering and backstage.io (nice to have)

Where You'll Be

This role will be based out of our London or Stockholm office.

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Our global benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Learn about life at Spotify

You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 500 million users.

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