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Developer Evangelist roles regularly qualify for H-1B visa and O-1 visa sponsorship when tied to a computer science or engineering degree. Employers in tech sponsor at high rates, and the role's public-facing nature strengthens O-1 petitions built around speaking, publications, and community impact. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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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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Frame the role as a specialty occupation
Developer Evangelist positions require a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field to qualify for H-1B sponsorship. Highlight the technical depth of the role in offer letters and job descriptions to support the specialty occupation argument.
Build an O-1A evidence portfolio early
Conference keynotes, published technical content, open-source contributions, and judging or reviewing developer programs all count as O-1A criteria. Start documenting these before you need the visa. A strong portfolio can make O-1A more viable than H-1B lottery odds.
Target tech companies with established sponsorship pipelines
Large technology companies like Google, Meta, and Stripe sponsor Developer Evangelists regularly and have immigration counsel on retainer. Their internal processes move faster than companies filing for the first time. Prioritize employers with a visible track record.
Clarify the degree field match upfront
H-1B requires the degree field to match the job. A Developer Evangelist role grounded in technical product work typically maps to computer science or engineering. Avoid ambiguity by ensuring the job description reflects technical responsibilities, not just communication duties.
Use speaking and media credits to differentiate your O-1 case
Developer Evangelists who have presented at major conferences, been quoted in technical publications, or built large developer communities have documented, verifiable contributions. These translate directly into O-1 visa criteria and can significantly strengthen a petition that stands apart from standard H-1B cases.
Negotiate sponsorship before signing, not after
Many employers will sponsor a Developer Evangelist but have not budgeted for it in advance. Raise the conversation during the offer stage, not after you start. Confirm whether they will cover legal fees and whether they have immigration counsel already engaged.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Developer Evangelist role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field such as computer science or software engineering. The challenge is that some employers list the role with broad or communication-focused requirements, which can weaken the specialty occupation argument. The job description needs to reflect substantive technical responsibilities to hold up under USCIS scrutiny.
What visa options exist for Developer Evangelists beyond the H-1B?
The O-1A is the most compelling alternative for experienced evangelists. It requires evidence of extraordinary ability, and Developer Evangelists often have strong supporting material: conference speaking history, published technical content, open-source contributions, and community influence. The O-1A has no lottery, no annual cap, and no degree field requirement, making it a practical path for candidates who don't win H-1B visa selection.
How do I find Developer Evangelist jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international candidates and filters roles by sponsorship willingness, so you're not sifting through listings that won't work for your situation. Developer Evangelist roles that appear on Migrate Mate are sourced from employers with a demonstrated history of sponsoring international workers, which saves significant time in the job search.
Will my degree field affect H-1B approval for this role?
Yes, directly. USCIS looks at whether the specific degree field aligns with the job duties. A computer science or software engineering degree maps cleanly to a technically scoped Developer Evangelist role. A degree in communications or marketing may not, even if the day-to-day work involves heavy technical content. If your degree is in a borderline field, the job description needs to compensate by emphasizing technical depth clearly.
Do Developer Evangelist roles at startups sponsor visas as often as large tech companies?
Less reliably. Early-stage startups frequently lack immigration counsel and haven't budgeted for sponsorship legal fees. Series B and later-stage companies are more likely to have processes in place. That said, some well-funded startups actively recruit international talent and will sponsor. The practical signal is whether the company has sponsored before, which USCIS filing records can confirm.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Developer Evangelist jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.