Qdrant
Senior Developer Relations Engineer (San Francisco, California)
San Francisco · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in software engineering, Developer Relations, or technical marketing, including at least 3 years in Developer Relations.
About the job
Leads developer engagement for Qdrant in the Bay Area through engineering demos, technical content, public speaking, partnerships, and community feedback that informs product development.
What you'll do
- Build open-source demos and prototype Qdrant use cases involving retrieval, recommendations, and AI applications.
- Create technical articles, videos, and guides; speak at conferences and lead workshops, hackathons, and partnerships.
- Engage with developer communities, relay feedback to product and engineering teams, and mentor DevRel colleagues.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in software engineering, Developer Relations, or technical marketing, including at least 3 years in Developer Relations.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, Rust, TypeScript, or Go; ability to build and debug applications using vector search, embeddings, and large language models.
- Experience owning a DevRel program or initiative end to end, measuring results, and changing work based on outcomes.
- Established relationships in the Bay Area developer and AI community.
Nice to have
- Experience with search or information retrieval systems, including indexing, ranking, or relevance tuning.
- Applied research experience, or an audience built through video or social media.
Tools
Python, Rust, TypeScript, Go, Qdrant
AI focus
Build demos and prototype use cases for AI applications, including retrieval pipelines, recommendation engines, AI search, neural sparse encoders, agentic workflows, and AI memory; communicate how vector search, embeddings, and large language models work.
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