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Developer Evangelist roles sit at the intersection of engineering and communication, which means your H-1B visa petition needs to document both your technical credentials and your public-facing work. Employers filing for this title typically classify it under computer occupations SOC codes, and your degree field must align with that classification for USCIS to approve specialty occupation status.
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We believe that open-source software, open standards and APIs are the greatest transformational tools for organizations in the modern software development era. Our mission at Diagrid is to provide developers with APIs and tools that help them focus on their code and not on infrastructure. As online digital services need to handle more load and run on multiple clouds or on-premises environments, programming to higher level abstractions delivers consistent, secure and reliable code that is easily portable and helps organizations de-risk their projects. Diagrid is founded by the creators of the Dapr and KEDA open-source projects, and who led the user experience, design and development of hyper-scale infrastructure cloud services, serverless platforms and open-source projects at Microsoft. Dapr has now achieved graduated status within the CNCF, joining renowned projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Istio. We are backed by top VC firms and supported with industry leading investors and advisors including Joe Beda (Kubernetes Co-Founder, former Co-Founder / CTO at Heptio) Matt Klein (Creator of Envoy, Lyft), Mark Russinovich (CTO, Microsoft Azure), William Morgan (Creator of Linkerd, CEO Buoyant), Seth Vargo (Senior Staff Engineer, Google), Adam Gross (Former CEO, Heroku), Sri Viswanath (Former CTO, Atlassian), Adam Frankl (Dev Marketing Expert, Neo4J & JFrog), and Roopak Venkatakrishnan (Head of platforms, Bolt).
About The Team
The Developer Experience team at Diagrid is obsessed with making distributed applications radically simpler and more reliable for developers worldwide. We steward the wildly popular open-source Dapr project (CNCF) while driving adoption of Diagrid’s commercial platform (Diagrid Catalyst) that brings production-grade reliability and security for AI agents. Our mission is to make AI agents reliable and secure for the Dapr and Diagrid community. We create inspiring demos, technical content, events, and tools that turn developers into advocates and help them ship faster, more resilient systems.
About The Role
As a Technology Evangelist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will be the public face and community heartbeat of Dapr and Diagrid. You’ll own community growth, content creation, and developer engagement end-to-end. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for someone who loves coding in public, building communities, and turning complex distributed systems + AI agent concepts into approachable, delightful experiences. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, and the broader open-source maintainer team.
What You’ll Do
- Grow the Dapr OSS Community: Drive contributor growth, engagement, and adoption metrics across GitHub, Discord, and other channels.
- Moderate & Nurture the Ecosystem: Actively moderate the Dapr Discord (and future community platforms), answer technical questions, recognize contributors, and foster a welcoming, high-signal environment.
- Create Compelling Content: Write high-quality blog posts for the Dapr blog and Diagrid Catalyst, produce tutorials, architectural guides, and sample applications showcasing Dapr + AI agents, workflows, state management, service invocation, and more.
- Lead Webinars & Live Sessions: Proactively plan and deliver technical webinars, workshops, and live demos on a regular cadence.
- Manage YouTube & Video Presence: Own the Dapr/Diagrid YouTube channel — script, record, edit, and publish videos, demos, and recordings of community events.
- Coordinate Events & Meetups: Help organize and host Dapr Meetups, Dapr Days, conference talks, and community events in the Bay Area and globally (with travel as needed).
- Build Diagrid Demos & Tools: Create sample applications, starters, and reference architectures that demonstrate best practices for Dapr in production and AI agent use cases.
- Gather Feedback & Influence Product: Act as the voice of the developer community — surface friction points, feature requests, and success stories to Engineering and Product teams.
- Represent Diagrid publicly: Speak at conferences, participate in podcasts, engage on social media (X, LinkedIn, etc.), and be a trusted advocate for Dapr and Diagrid.
You Might Thrive in This Role If You
- Have prior Technologist Evangelist, Developer Relations, Developer Advocate, or Community Manager experience.
- Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with strong hands-on knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, or microservices.
- Are deeply familiar with Dapr (or similar projects like Temporal, Camunda, Orkes, etc.) and excited about its future in the AI agent era.
- Love creating content and have a track record of blogs, videos, talks, or open-source contributions that gained traction.
- Excel at community building — you’ve moderated Discords/Slack, grown OSS projects, or run successful meetup groups.
- Are a strong communicator who can explain complex topics (stateful workflows, actor models, sidecar architecture, LLM orchestration) clearly and enthusiastically.
- Enjoy shipping code publicly and building demos with Python, Go, TypeScript, or .NET.
- Thrive in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and evolving priorities.
- Are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nice-to-Haves
- Speaking experience at conferences (KubeCon, Microsoft Build, etc.).
- Experience with AI agents, LangChain/LlamaIndex, or workflow orchestration.
- Existing relationships in the cloud-native or AI developer communities.
Diagrid Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Company equity
- Remote first & flexible work environment
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive healthcare for you and your dependents
- Choice of hardware
- $1000 for home office setup
- Monthly WFH stipend
- Team events & gatherings
- Chance to collaborate with industry-leading figures
Diagrid, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Who We Are
We believe that open-source software, open standards and APIs are the greatest transformational tools for organizations in the modern software development era. Our mission at Diagrid is to provide developers with APIs and tools that help them focus on their code and not on infrastructure. As online digital services need to handle more load and run on multiple clouds or on-premises environments, programming to higher level abstractions delivers consistent, secure and reliable code that is easily portable and helps organizations de-risk their projects. Diagrid is founded by the creators of the Dapr and KEDA open-source projects, and who led the user experience, design and development of hyper-scale infrastructure cloud services, serverless platforms and open-source projects at Microsoft. Dapr has now achieved graduated status within the CNCF, joining renowned projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Istio. We are backed by top VC firms and supported with industry leading investors and advisors including Joe Beda (Kubernetes Co-Founder, former Co-Founder / CTO at Heptio) Matt Klein (Creator of Envoy, Lyft), Mark Russinovich (CTO, Microsoft Azure), William Morgan (Creator of Linkerd, CEO Buoyant), Seth Vargo (Senior Staff Engineer, Google), Adam Gross (Former CEO, Heroku), Sri Viswanath (Former CTO, Atlassian), Adam Frankl (Dev Marketing Expert, Neo4J & JFrog), and Roopak Venkatakrishnan (Head of platforms, Bolt).
About The Team
The Developer Experience team at Diagrid is obsessed with making distributed applications radically simpler and more reliable for developers worldwide. We steward the wildly popular open-source Dapr project (CNCF) while driving adoption of Diagrid’s commercial platform (Diagrid Catalyst) that brings production-grade reliability and security for AI agents. Our mission is to make AI agents reliable and secure for the Dapr and Diagrid community. We create inspiring demos, technical content, events, and tools that turn developers into advocates and help them ship faster, more resilient systems.
About The Role
As a Technology Evangelist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will be the public face and community heartbeat of Dapr and Diagrid. You’ll own community growth, content creation, and developer engagement end-to-end. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for someone who loves coding in public, building communities, and turning complex distributed systems + AI agent concepts into approachable, delightful experiences. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, and the broader open-source maintainer team.
What You’ll Do
- Grow the Dapr OSS Community: Drive contributor growth, engagement, and adoption metrics across GitHub, Discord, and other channels.
- Moderate & Nurture the Ecosystem: Actively moderate the Dapr Discord (and future community platforms), answer technical questions, recognize contributors, and foster a welcoming, high-signal environment.
- Create Compelling Content: Write high-quality blog posts for the Dapr blog and Diagrid Catalyst, produce tutorials, architectural guides, and sample applications showcasing Dapr + AI agents, workflows, state management, service invocation, and more.
- Lead Webinars & Live Sessions: Proactively plan and deliver technical webinars, workshops, and live demos on a regular cadence.
- Manage YouTube & Video Presence: Own the Dapr/Diagrid YouTube channel — script, record, edit, and publish videos, demos, and recordings of community events.
- Coordinate Events & Meetups: Help organize and host Dapr Meetups, Dapr Days, conference talks, and community events in the Bay Area and globally (with travel as needed).
- Build Diagrid Demos & Tools: Create sample applications, starters, and reference architectures that demonstrate best practices for Dapr in production and AI agent use cases.
- Gather Feedback & Influence Product: Act as the voice of the developer community — surface friction points, feature requests, and success stories to Engineering and Product teams.
- Represent Diagrid publicly: Speak at conferences, participate in podcasts, engage on social media (X, LinkedIn, etc.), and be a trusted advocate for Dapr and Diagrid.
You Might Thrive in This Role If You
- Have prior Technologist Evangelist, Developer Relations, Developer Advocate, or Community Manager experience.
- Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with strong hands-on knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, or microservices.
- Are deeply familiar with Dapr (or similar projects like Temporal, Camunda, Orkes, etc.) and excited about its future in the AI agent era.
- Love creating content and have a track record of blogs, videos, talks, or open-source contributions that gained traction.
- Excel at community building — you’ve moderated Discords/Slack, grown OSS projects, or run successful meetup groups.
- Are a strong communicator who can explain complex topics (stateful workflows, actor models, sidecar architecture, LLM orchestration) clearly and enthusiastically.
- Enjoy shipping code publicly and building demos with Python, Go, TypeScript, or .NET.
- Thrive in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and evolving priorities.
- Are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nice-to-Haves
- Speaking experience at conferences (KubeCon, Microsoft Build, etc.).
- Experience with AI agents, LangChain/LlamaIndex, or workflow orchestration.
- Existing relationships in the cloud-native or AI developer communities.
Diagrid Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Company equity
- Remote first & flexible work environment
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive healthcare for you and your dependents
- Choice of hardware
- $1000 for home office setup
- Monthly WFH stipend
- Team events & gatherings
- Chance to collaborate with industry-leading figures
Diagrid, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
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Align your degree to the SOC code
Developer Evangelist roles are typically filed under computer occupations SOC codes. If your degree is in communications or marketing rather than computer science, document your technical coursework and engineering experience explicitly in your petition to satisfy the specialty occupation requirement.
Build a public technical portfolio before applying
USCIS adjudicators scrutinize Developer Evangelist petitions more than pure engineering roles. Conference talks, published tutorials, open-source contributions, and recorded demos function as evidence that your role requires specialized knowledge, not just presentation skills.
Target employers with dedicated developer relations teams
Companies with established DevRel functions understand the specialty occupation argument for this title. Use Migrate Mate to filter for employers with active H-1B LCA filing history in computer occupations so you're not educating a hiring manager about sponsorship from scratch.
Verify the prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Run the OFLC Wage Search before you negotiate so you know the floor, and flag any offer below Level II wages as a potential filing risk.
Request cap-exempt filing if your employer qualifies
Developer Evangelist roles at universities, nonprofit research institutions, or certain government-affiliated entities may qualify for cap-exempt H-1B filing, bypassing the annual lottery entirely. Ask your prospective employer's legal team whether the organization meets USCIS cap-exemption criteria before accepting an offer.
Document travel and remote work in your LCA carefully
Developer Evangelists frequently work at conferences, client sites, and co-working spaces outside their primary work location. Each worksite where you'll spend more than 40 hours in a rolling year must be covered by a certified LCA or a short-term placement memo, or you risk a compliance violation.
H-1B Visa Developer Evangelist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Developer Evangelist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but the argument requires documentation. USCIS evaluates whether the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field. Because Developer Evangelist sits between engineering and advocacy, your employer's petition must demonstrate that the position requires specialized technical knowledge, not just communication skills. A strong job description tied to a computer occupations SOC code and a degree that matches that field strengthens the case significantly.
Which SOC code do employers typically use when filing H-1B petitions for Developer Evangelist roles?
Most employers file Developer Evangelist roles under SOC 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) or 15-1252 (Software Developers), depending on the technical depth of the position. The SOC code drives both the prevailing wage calculation and the specialty occupation argument. You can review the O*NET occupation profile for these codes to understand what qualifications USCIS expects the role to require.
How does frequent conference travel affect my H-1B compliance as a Developer Evangelist?
H-1B status ties your authorized employment to the worksites listed on your certified LCA. Developer Evangelists who speak at conferences or visit client offices in multiple states must either have those locations covered by a blanket LCA or rely on the short-term placement provision, which allows work at unlisted sites for up to 60 days per year. Your employer's immigration counsel should track your travel calendar to avoid compliance gaps.
How do I find employers who have a track record of sponsoring H-1B visas for Developer Evangelist roles?
Search Migrate Mate to filter employers by their H-1B LCA filing history in computer occupations. Companies that have filed repeatedly in this category already understand the specialty occupation argument for technical advocacy roles, which shortens the petition process and reduces the risk of a Request for Evidence from USCIS.
Can I switch from an H-1B at a software company to a Developer Evangelist role at a different employer without losing my status?
Yes, through H-1B portability under AC21. Once your current H-1B petition has been approved and you've been in valid H-1B status, you can start working for a new employer as soon as they file an H-1B transfer petition on your behalf, without waiting for approval. The new role must still qualify as a specialty occupation, so make sure the new employer's SOC code and job description support that classification before the transfer is filed.