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Senior Developer Advocate (Founding DevRel)

Promptfoo

Promptfoo

Software Engineering
California, USA · Remote
Posted on Oct 6, 2025

Location

Bay Area Hybrid

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

About Promptfoo

Promptfoo is an open-source framework for evaluating AI agents, red teaming, and AI application security. Over 200,000 developers use it to test LLMs, LLM-powered applications, and agent behavior across tools and models, and plug into CI/CD. Promptfoo is the most popular open-source AI red-teaming framework and is growing quickly. Promptfoo is backed by Insight Partners and Andreessen Horowitz and is based in San Mateo, CA (SF Bay Area).

Why This Role

  • Be the public face of Promptfoo for developers

  • Serve as the developer voice within the company

  • Build and lead the education engine

  • Grow a strong community

  • Help teams confidently ship safer AI features

What You Will Do

Content and Education

  • Manage the editorial calendar and publish every week

  • Create tutorials, deep dives, quick-start videos, and release explainers

  • Write step-by-step guides using real configs, datasets, and results

  • Record clear, 2 to 5 minute demo videos featuring simple diagrams and screenshots

Community and Channels

  • Be active in Discord, unblocking users and turning FAQs into documentation and examples

  • Share concise, practical tips on LinkedIn and X

  • Host webinars, office hours, and Bay Area workshops

Docs and Developer Experience

  • Improve documentation structure and reference pages

  • Keep examples up to date as providers and features evolve

  • Reduce friction in install, configuration, and CI setup

Demos and Integrations

  • Build small, well-documented sample apps

  • Demonstrate modern patterns for retrieval, agents, guardrails, and test data

  • Track new frameworks and model APIs, publishing examples quickly

Feedback Loop

  • Distill user feedback into clear issues and actionable proposals

  • Validate fixes directly with users and close the feedback loop publicly

What Success Looks Like in 90 Days

  • Become an expert in Promptfoo. Understand how to triage common issues from GitHub and Discord

  • Publish one code-backed post, guide, or video each week covering new models, AI agent frameworks, or how to use common and new features in Promptfoo

  • Tweak and make updates to the documentation based

  • Help circulate and promote new Promptfoo features to our existing users via our mailing list

  • Host a live workshop

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in developer-facing roles: Developer Advocate, Software Engineer, Solutions or Field Engineer, or Technical Writer

  • Strong Python or TypeScript skills; able to build clean, minimal demos

  • Portfolio of guides, talks, videos, or documentation

  • Clear, concise communicator; comfortable live and on camera

  • High agency: you plan, ship weekly, and iterate from data

  • Proficiency using Promptfoo

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity

  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage

  • 401(k) plan

  • New hardware and a productivity budget

  • Travel to conferences and community events

  • Flexible time off