Developer Advocate - Volcano
At a glance
Mid-level role at Kong. Remote, United States · full-time · $200,000–$245,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Create Cookbook guides that show real apps on Volcano, including the code, choices and snags
- Build ready-to-deploy templates and examples, then make videos, streams and short demos
- Organize Volcano hackathons, take part in others, and choose worthwhile sponsorships
- Collaborate with tool makers on joint content and share developer feedback from Discord, X and GitHub
- Improve publishing tools and workflows, and test Volcano yourself so engineers can fix issues you find
What you bring
- You can point to something you shipped publicly in the past year and explain how you shared it
- You have taken a project from its beginning, such as starting a company or joining an early team
- You can build and troubleshoot an app with Claude Code or a comparable coding agent, then explain the technical details
- You write clearly, use AI in your work, and can present technical ideas accurately to developers
Who this fits
This mid-level, remote U.S. role suits someone who enjoys building in public and explaining technical work through writing, video and live conversations. You’ll work between engineering and developers, with hands-on responsibility for testing the product and bringing feedback to the team.
From the employer
Are you ready to unlock intelligence?
If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the Role:
Volcano (volcano.dev) is a cloud for apps built with coding agents. You tell Claude Code, Cursor or Codex what you want, and it sets up the database, auth, functions, storage, realtime and deploys on Volcano without a trip through a dashboard. Most platforms were designed around a person in a console and added agent support later. We started from the agent.
We're a small team and launched publicly in September 2026. Volcano is incubated by Kong and runs as its own company with its own brand.
This role sits between engineering and the developers we build for. You'll build on Volcano constantly, show people what it can do, and bring back what you learn so the product gets better.
What You'll Do:
Own the Volcano Cookbook: recipes that build real apps on Volcano with tools developers already use, written up with the code, the decisions and the gotchas.
Build templates and examples people can deploy in one step.
Make video, including YouTube, streams and short demos.
Run Volcano hackathons, show up at others, and decide which sponsorships are worth doing.
Work with the companies whose tools appear in our recipes on joint content.
Spend time where developers ask questions, in Discord, on X and on GitHub, and bring what you hear back to the team.
Build the tooling and workflows that let a small team publish more without the quality slipping.
Be customer zero. You'll hit rough edges before users do, and engineers should be able to act on your reports.
Who You'll Bring:
You've built things in public in the last year and can show us what you shipped and how you told people about it.
You've done 0-to-1 work: started a company, joined one early, or launched something from nothing.
You're technical and fluent with coding agents. You don't need to be a database or infrastructure expert, but you can build a working app with Claude Code or similar, debug it when it breaks, and explain what happened.
You write well. You use AI in your own workflow, and you can tell when output reads like slop.
You like explaining things, whether to a room, a camera or a thread of skeptical replies.
Engineers trust you on technical accuracy.
Bonus Points:
An existing developer audience
Hackathon organizing experience
Experience with developer platforms like Vercel, Supabase, Neon or Cloudflare.
About Kong:
Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
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