Developer Relations Engineer

Prefect
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 149,000 - 219,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Public speaking","Collaboration","Technical writing","Debugging"]

Own how developers learn to build with Prefect, Dagster, FastMCP, and Horizon. Ship production-grade reference implementations, then teach agentic workflows through demos, posts, talks, and video. Improve the docs and developer experience by acting as the first user—filing issues, sending PRs, and fixing examples. Represent Prefect publicly across community and conferences while turning what you see into product feedback.

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Prefect
Prefect
4 days ago

Developer Relations Engineer

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Job Summary

Own how developers learn to build with Prefect, Dagster, FastMCP, and Horizon. Ship production-grade reference implementations, then teach agentic workflows through demos, posts, talks, and video. Improve the docs and developer experience by acting as the first user—filing issues, sending PRs, and fixing examples. Represent Prefect publicly across community and conferences while turning what you see into product feedback.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Ship reference implementations developers copy into production, including maintained MCP servers, gateway configurations, and agentic workflows.
  • •Teach developers about agentic workflows through demos, posts, talks, and video while working closely with product and engineering.
  • •Own the technical side of video production and create fifteen-minute build content optimized for watchability.
  • •Improve DX by building with the tools first, then filing issues, sending docs PRs, and fixing examples.
  • •Represent the company publicly via conference talks and participation in MCP/Python AI communities, and translate what you see into product feedback.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 149,000 - 219,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:401kHealth InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveParental LeaveLife InsuranceDisabilityRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years writing software professionally, with strong Python desirable.
  • •A public body of technical work we can review (repos, posts, docs, talks, or videos).
  • •Experience building with LLMs and agents (e.g., MCP servers, tool calling, agent frameworks, retrieval).
  • •Comfortability on camera and on stage, with evidence you can show work to others.
  • •Ability to run as a team of one: choose what to build, ship it, and assess whether it landed.
Experience:6+ yearsOpen sourceLLMsAgentsDeveloper community
Skills:OwnershipPublic speakingCollaborationTechnical writingDebugging
Tech Stack:PythonLLMsMCPFastMCPHorizonDagsterAirflowDbtYouTubeLinkedInXTikTokSSORBACAudit logs

Company Brief

Prefect
Open-source workflow orchestration platform that enables data and ML teams to build, schedule, and observe resilient data pipelines and automated workflows across environments.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Founded: 2018
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