Senior Developer Advocate Jobs
Senior Developer Advocate jobs are open across cloud computing, developer tools, fintech, and enterprise SaaS, from mid-level advocates to staff and principal, with specializations in API advocacy, open-source community building, and technical content. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub Security Lab
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Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub Security Lab
GitHub·Remote
Job functions:
$122k - $323k/yr
Remote (US)
Bachelor's degree
Job Description
About GitHub: GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
In this role, you will act as a known subject matter expert and trusted ambassador who engages with security researchers, open source maintainers, and enterprise developers and encourages them to get the most out of GitHub Security Lab's security tools and resources — including CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning, code scanning, Copilot Autofix, AI-powered vulnerability detection, and the GitHub Advisory Database.
You will define the vision and strategy for the Security Lab's developer advocacy program, producing high-quality technical content (blog posts, tutorials, training, videos, CTFs, conference talks), leading community events, and driving social media campaigns. You will grow our community from a dedicated group of security enthusiasts to everyone who cares about software security. You will also help the security community understand and navigate the evolving intersection of AI and security — from securing AI-generated code to leveraging AI for vulnerability discovery.
As a Staff-level advocate, you bring cross-team influence and deep technical expertise across multiple areas. You don't just execute — you set direction, establish frameworks that help others produce great security content, and proactively identify highly impactful unaddressed issues, mobilizing resources to resolve them before they affect the community. You mentor and sponsor others within the team, and you use data and business outcomes to inform decisions and influence stakeholders across GitHub.
Responsibilities:
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
GitHub is seeking a Staff Developer Advocate to join the GitHub Security Lab. The mission of the Security Lab is to inspire and enable the community to secure the open source software we all depend on. We create a home for security researchers where they can collaborate and share, with the common goal of making security easy for developers.
In this role, you will act as a known subject matter expert and trusted ambassador who engages with security researchers, open source maintainers, and enterprise developers and encourages them to get the most out of GitHub Security Lab's security tools and resources — including CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning, code scanning, Copilot Autofix, AI-powered vulnerability detection, and the GitHub Advisory Database.
You will define the vision and strategy for the Security Lab's developer advocacy program, producing high-quality technical content (blog posts, tutorials, training, videos, CTFs, conference talks), leading community events, and driving social media campaigns. You will grow our community from a dedicated group of security enthusiasts to everyone who cares about software security. You will also help the security community understand and navigate the evolving intersection of AI and security — from securing AI-generated code to leveraging AI for vulnerability discovery.
As a Staff-level advocate, you bring cross-team influence and deep technical expertise across multiple areas. You don't just execute — you set direction, establish frameworks that help others produce great security content, and proactively identify highly impactful unaddressed issues, mobilizing resources to resolve them before they affect the community. You mentor and sponsor others within the team, and you use data and business outcomes to inform decisions and influence stakeholders across GitHub.
Understanding the Security Community
Acts as a known subject matter expert of the security research and open source developer communities — their common experiences, goals, industry trends, and key developments — by meeting with community members, attending security and developer conferences, and engaging on social media. Possesses expert knowledge of GitHub's security products and services (CodeQL, code scanning, secret scanning, Dependabot, advisory database) and their potential impact on the broader security ecosystem. Strategically seeks out influencers in the security and open source spaces to understand business drivers and community objectives. Anticipates future changes in the application security landscape, including the impact of AI on security research workflows and the emerging challenges of securing AI-generated code.
Building Trusted Relationships
Acts as a trusted and influential ambassador between the security community and GitHub's product, engineering, and marketing teams. Builds and maintains a broad, diverse network across security researchers, open source maintainers, and enterprise security teams. Utilizes deep understanding of community needs to share valuable insights, best practices, and technical know-how, maintaining thought leadership within the security community.
Internal Advocacy and Impact
Collects and seeks out feedback from the security community and stakeholders regarding product usage, user experience, and technical issues. Communicates clearly and effectively to relevant product groups, advocating for and influencing urgent and long-term improvements to GitHub's security features. Proactively builds and manages networks of key stakeholders and leads engagement through established and informal channels to provide feedback on priorities and emerging security scenarios. Incorporates data and key metrics into findings regarding value-add and impact of advocacy initiatives. Ensures the feedback loop between community members, the Security Lab, and the GitHub product team is effective.
Supporting Key Internal Initiatives
Builds and enhances trust with internal teams through networking and engagement regarding security product improvement plans. Acts as a subject matter expert for internal stakeholders on application security and the security researcher community. Regularly engages in retrospective evaluations to inform future work.
Content Development
Defines, creates, and leads the technical content strategy for the Security Lab — blog posts, tutorials, training courses, videos, CTFs, puzzles, and conference talks — covering topics from traditional vulnerability research to AI-assisted security analysis and secure AI development practices. Drives interactions across technical forums, social media, and community channels to promote awareness and provide best practices. Represents the GitHub Security Lab at high-visibility security and developer conferences, hackathons, and meetups. Sets the standard for content quality and measures impact to continuously improve how we communicate with the security community.
Community Impact
Actively seeks out feedback and listens to the needs of the security community, responding with relevant information and upskilling others to make a substantial impact on community growth. Designs the community member journey — from first engagement to active contributor — measuring retention and engagement along the way. Proposes strategic improvements to the community experience. Manages the Security Lab's social media presence and public forums. Applies deep knowledge of GitHub's security products, stakeholders, and strategic objectives to influence and inspire the audience.
Technical Expertise
Possesses deep technical expertise in application security, secure code practices, vulnerability research, AI-assisted code analysis, and static analysis. Constantly seeks out learning and teaching opportunities and engages in conversations with key security researchers and developers to understand current developments and issues. Applies and practices technical expertise via sample code, CodeQL queries, security advisories, and demonstrations. Builds processes and systems to share technical expertise at scale and works within the industry to help inform future security developments. Understands the security implications of AI-generated code and AI-powered development tools, and can communicate best practices for secure AI adoption to both security researchers and developers. Gains broader knowledge of adjacent technologies and incorporates them into current areas of expertise.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
-
10+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology, software development, or related work
- OR Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology, software development, or related work
- OR equivalent experience
-
Delivered at least one technical keynote on a security topic at a developer conference with 1,000+ attendees
- OR delivered a session at a major security conference (Black Hat, DEF CON, etc)
- OR published regular content (blog, podcast) on security and open source topics
-
2+ years of experience in application security, secure code practices, or vulnerability research
- OR 2+ years of experience in a Developer Advocacy function on application security, secure code practices, or vulnerability research topics
- OR contributions to open source security projects or security-focused open source tools
- 4+ years of experience working with Git, GitHub, and software development practices
Preferred Qualifications
-
13+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology, software development, public speaking, technical writing, or related work
- OR Bachelor's Degree AND 11+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology, software development, public speaking, technical writing, or related work
- OR equivalent experience
- 2+ years of experience with static analysis tools like CodeQL
-
2+ years of active participation in security communities
- OR 2+ years of active participation in open source maintainer communities with a focus on security
- OR 2+ years of mentoring or teaching application security, secure code practices, or vulnerability research
- At least one public contribution (content, open source tooling) on AI/ML security topics — such as securing AI-generated code, AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, or red-teaming LLM-based tools
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
- Model
- Coach
- Care
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
GitHub
Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub Security Lab
Remote
Added 1d ago
Job functions:
$122k - $323k/yr
Remote (US)
Bachelor's degree
Job Description
About GitHub: GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
In this role, you will act as a known subject matter expert and trusted ambassador who engages with security researchers, open source maintainers, and enterprise developers and encourages them to get the most out of GitHub Security Lab's security tools and resources — including CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning, code scanning, Copilot Autofix, AI-powered vulnerability detection, and the GitHub Advisory Database.
You will define the vision and strategy for the Security Lab's developer advocacy program, producing high-quality technical content (blog posts, tutorials, training, videos, CTFs, conference talks), leading community events, and driving social media campaigns. You will grow our community from a dedicated group of security enthusiasts to everyone who cares about software security. You will also help the security community understand and navigate the evolving intersection of AI and security — from securing AI-generated code to leveraging AI for vulnerability discovery.
As a Staff-level advocate, you bring cross-team influence and deep technical expertise across multiple areas. You don't just execute — you set direction, establish frameworks that help others produce great security content, and proactively identify highly impactful unaddressed issues, mobilizing resources to resolve them before they affect the community. You mentor and sponsor others within the team, and you use data and business outcomes to inform decisions and influence stakeholders across GitHub.
Responsibilities:
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
GitHub is seeking a Staff Developer Advocate to join the GitHub Security Lab. The mission of the Security Lab is to inspire and enable the community to secure the open source software we all depend on. We create a home for security researchers where they can collaborate and share, with the common goal of making security easy for developers.
In this role, you will act as a known subject matter expert and trusted ambassador who engages with security researchers, open source maintainers, and enterprise developers and encourages them to get the most out of GitHub Security Lab's security tools and resources — including CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning, code scanning, Copilot Autofix, AI-powered vulnerability detection, and the GitHub Advisory Database.
You will define the vision and strategy for the Security Lab's developer advocacy program, producing high-quality technical content (blog posts, tutorials, training, videos, CTFs, conference talks), leading community events, and driving social media campaigns. You will grow our community from a dedicated group of security enthusiasts to everyone who cares about software security. You will also help the security community understand and navigate the evolving intersection of AI and security — from securing AI-generated code to leveraging AI for vulnerability discovery.
As a Staff-level advocate, you bring cross-team influence and deep technical expertise across multiple areas. You don't just execute — you set direction, establish frameworks that help others produce great security content, and proactively identify highly impactful unaddressed issues, mobilizing resources to resolve them before they affect the community. You mentor and sponsor others within the team, and you use data and business outcomes to inform decisions and influence stakeholders across GitHub.
Understanding the Security Community
Acts as a known subject matter expert of the security research and open source developer communities — their common experiences, goals, industry trends, and key developments — by meeting with community members, attending security and developer conferences, and engaging on social media. Possesses expert knowledge of GitHub's security products and services (CodeQL, code scanning, secret scanning, Dependabot, advisory database) and their potential impact on the broader security ecosystem. Strategically seeks out influencers in the security and open source spaces to understand business drivers and community objectives. Anticipates future changes in the application security landscape, including the impact of AI on security research workflows and the emerging challenges of securing AI-generated code.
Building Trusted Relationships
Acts as a trusted and influential ambassador between the security community and GitHub's product, engineering, and marketing teams. Builds and maintains a broad, diverse network across security researchers, open source maintainers, and enterprise security teams. Utilizes deep understanding of community needs to share valuable insights, best practices, and technical know-how, maintaining thought leadership within the security community.
Internal Advocacy and Impact
Collects and seeks out feedback from the security community and stakeholders regarding product usage, user experience, and technical issues. Communicates clearly and effectively to relevant product groups, advocating for and influencing urgent and long-term improvements to GitHub's security features. Proactively builds and manages networks of key stakeholders and leads engagement through established and informal channels to provide feedback on priorities and emerging security scenarios. Incorporates data and key metrics into findings regarding value-add and impact of advocacy initiatives. Ensures the feedback loop between community members, the Security Lab, and the GitHub product team is effective.
Supporting Key Internal Initiatives
Builds and enhances trust with internal teams through networking and engagement regarding security product improvement plans. Acts as a subject matter expert for internal stakeholders on application security and the security researcher community. Regularly engages in retrospective evaluations to inform future work.
Content Development
Defines, creates, and leads the technical content strategy for the Security Lab — blog posts, tutorials, training courses, videos, CTFs, puzzles, and conference talks — covering topics from traditional vulnerability research to AI-assisted security analysis and secure AI development practices. Drives interactions across technical forums, social media, and community channels to promote awareness and provide best practices. Represents the GitHub Security Lab at high-visibility security and developer conferences, hackathons, and meetups. Sets the standard for content quality and measures impact to continuously improve how we communicate with the security community.
Community Impact
Actively seeks out feedback and listens to the needs of the security community, responding with relevant information and upskilling others to make a substantial impact on community growth. Designs the community member journey — from first engagement to active contributor — measuring retention and engagement along the way. Proposes strategic improvements to the community experience. Manages the Security Lab's social media presence and public forums. Applies deep knowledge of GitHub's security products, stakeholders, and strategic objectives to influence and inspire the audience.
Technical Expertise
Possesses deep technical expertise in application security, secure code practices, vulnerability research, AI-assisted code analysis, and static analysis. Constantly seeks out learning and teaching opportunities and engages in conversations with key security researchers and developers to understand current developments and issues. Applies and practices technical expertise via sample code, CodeQL queries, security advisories, and demonstrations. Builds processes and systems to share technical expertise at scale and works within the industry to help inform future security developments. Understands the security implications of AI-generated code and AI-powered development tools, and can communicate best practices for secure AI adoption to both security researchers and developers. Gains broader knowledge of adjacent technologies and incorporates them into current areas of expertise.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
-
10+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology, software development, or related work
- OR Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology, software development, or related work
- OR equivalent experience
-
Delivered at least one technical keynote on a security topic at a developer conference with 1,000+ attendees
- OR delivered a session at a major security conference (Black Hat, DEF CON, etc)
- OR published regular content (blog, podcast) on security and open source topics
-
2+ years of experience in application security, secure code practices, or vulnerability research
- OR 2+ years of experience in a Developer Advocacy function on application security, secure code practices, or vulnerability research topics
- OR contributions to open source security projects or security-focused open source tools
- 4+ years of experience working with Git, GitHub, and software development practices
Preferred Qualifications
-
13+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology, software development, public speaking, technical writing, or related work
- OR Bachelor's Degree AND 11+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology, software development, public speaking, technical writing, or related work
- OR equivalent experience
- 2+ years of experience with static analysis tools like CodeQL
-
2+ years of active participation in security communities
- OR 2+ years of active participation in open source maintainer communities with a focus on security
- OR 2+ years of mentoring or teaching application security, secure code practices, or vulnerability research
- At least one public contribution (content, open source tooling) on AI/ML security topics — such as securing AI-generated code, AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, or red-teaming LLM-based tools
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
- Model
- Coach
- Care
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior developer advocate jobs.
- 5 or more years of software development or engineering experience in a related stack
- Proven experience creating technical content such as blog posts, documentation, or video tutorials
- Strong public speaking skills with conference or meetup presentation experience
- Proficiency with APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms relevant to the company's product
- Experience building or managing developer communities, forums, or open-source projects
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Senior Developer Advocate Job Search
Quantify your community impact on your resume
Hiring managers for senior developer advocate roles want to see concrete outcomes, not just activities. List the size of communities you grew, events you ran, or documentation you wrote that measurably reduced support tickets or increased SDK adoption.
Build a public technical content portfolio
Your blog posts, conference talks, YouTube tutorials, and GitHub repos are your portfolio. Link to them from your resume header. Employers will review these before your interview, so curate the pieces that show both technical depth and clear explanation.
Target companies at the right product stage
Developer advocate roles at early-stage startups focus on building community from scratch, while mature platforms need advocates who can scale existing programs. Identify which stage you thrive in and filter your search accordingly to avoid mismatched expectations.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists senior developer advocate openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a live technical demo for interviews
Most senior developer advocate interviews include a mock talk or demo where you explain a technical concept to a mixed audience. Practice delivering a five-minute walkthrough of a real API or SDK you know well, ending with a clear developer call to action.
Negotiate scope and travel expectations upfront
Conference travel, community event budgets, and internal engineering access vary widely across companies. Ask specific questions about these during the offer stage, not after you start, so your workload and resources match what you agreed to.
Senior Developer Advocate Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most senior developer advocates?
The companies hiring the most senior developer advocates right now include Datadog, NVIDIA, and Yandex, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Cloud platforms, developer-tools startups, and enterprise API companies consistently account for the highest volume of senior-level openings in this role.
How many senior developer advocate jobs are remote?
About 62% of senior developer advocate openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, making it one of the more location-flexible senior technical roles available. Sub-specializations focused on content creation, documentation, and online community management tend to skew most remote, while roles centered on regional event strategy or in-person developer relations often require a home base near a major tech market.
How do you become a senior developer advocate?
Start by building genuine engineering experience so you can speak credibly to developer pain points. Create public technical content consistently, whether through a blog, open-source contributions, or conference talks, to develop an audience and a visible portfolio. Move into a junior or mid-level developer advocate role, grow measurable community outcomes, and take on cross-functional projects like SDK launches or documentation overhauls that demonstrate senior-level scope and judgment.
Can you get hired as a senior developer advocate with limited experience in the role?
Yes, if you can demonstrate the outcomes the role produces even without the official title. Candidates who have run technical workshops, maintained open-source projects with active contributor communities, authored widely read documentation, or presented at developer conferences are regularly considered for senior roles even without a formal developer advocate background. Focus your application materials on the impact and scale of those activities rather than the job title you held at the time.
What does the senior developer advocate interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical conversation to assess depth in the company's stack or API surface. A live or recorded mock talk or demo comes next, where you explain a technical concept to a mixed audience of engineers and non-engineers. Final rounds usually include a strategic discussion about community programs, cross-functional stakeholder interviews with product and engineering leaders, and sometimes a written or recorded content sample review.
Where can I find and apply to senior developer advocate jobs?
You can find and apply to senior developer advocate jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your stack, community focus, and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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