[nhumrich]

My biggest solution: pay more

I would love a developer advocate role. Been searching for a good one for a while now. But almost every position I see pays just slightly above junior engineer range, as if developer advocates are just washed up engineers who couldn't quite make it. Well, if thats how you pay, thats what you will get.

If anyone is willing to pay for my years of focus and experience on "developer experience", and make your product all the better by having a dev advocate who actually has been there, let me know.

[gk1]

Hey, I'm hiring dev advocates who aren't just "washed up engineers." It looks like you started in a new role recently so maybe you didn't mean "let me know" literally, but here's me letting you know. Hit me up: [e-mail]

[mooreds]

Hiya Greg! Hope things are going well for you!

[thesandlord]

I think a really important factor is where in the reporting structure DevRel sits. I was a Dev Advocate at Google, and because we were in the engineering ladder there was not much of a comp difference between my role and a SWE. We had folks from junior all the way to senior staff / principal (basically Director level IC). If anything, some folks got paid more because they had really solid engineering skills along with public speaking and marketing skills.

Other places put DevRel in marketing (not always a bad thing, but a definite red flag) and/or treat them like glorified blog post writers and talking heads. You won't get high quality folks if this is the case.

[mooreds]

We're hiring a devrel and our jobs show pay ranges: https://fusionauth.io/jobs/senior-developer-advocate

I don't think they pay junior engineer level, but if they are, please let me know.