General

Developer Relations

Also written as DevRel, Developer Advocate, Technical Evangelist

A role that builds a company's relationship with external developers through documentation, talks, sample code and community — marketing done in a way engineers will tolerate.

Think of it like

Like a chef who runs cooking classes: partly to teach, partly so people buy the ingredients.

Junior or senior?

Junior sounds like

Counts talks given and posts written.

Senior sounds like

Ties activity to something that changed — adoption, a doc that cut support tickets, product feedback that altered the roadmap.

Ask them

“What did you do in DevRel that changed the product, not just the audience?”