Founding Developer Advocate
Reports to
CEO
Type
Full-time
Location
Remote — relocation to London or SF possible later
About Modern Relay
We're building a lakehouse-native graph engine with git-style workflows. Branch, commit, and merge typed graph data like code. Multi-modal, self-hosted, open source — optimized for on-prem and hybrid context graphs, multi-agent research, and enterprise knowledge systems.
We believe graphs aren't just a database choice — they're the most efficient way to create and distribute knowledge, across people and agents. As fans of Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity, we think we're at the start of an explosion of explanatory knowledge, and we want to lead the way.
Our mantra is ADOPTION. Stable v1 is in flight. What's missing is a community of ideas around it. We invite you to build it with us.
The role
You'll be the champion of the Omnigraph community and distribution — the one who turns members into builders and contributors. We're hiring a systems engineer whose product is the DevRel function itself: an agent-orchestrated machine that produces content, cultivates community, audits developer experience, and ships cookbooks — and that you continuously rebuild as the tooling and the product evolve.
Our style
We've optimized the whole company to run on agents — Hermes, Claude Code, Devin; Slack wired for agent-driven development. You won't hand-crank DevRel.
You'll build it to run on rails: agent pipelines that draft docs from PRs, triage issues, generate cookbooks from real usage, cut release notes, and surface DX friction — then you'll keep upgrading those pipelines as everything changes underneath them.
What you'll own
Five systems to build and run — not five inboxes to empty.
Content
Conceptual docs and explainers; cookbooks, use-case and migration guides; blog posts (own and guest); customer case studies; sample apps, skills, plugins, integrations and boilerplates; demo and tutorial videos; recorded talks; a public social presence on X and LinkedIn.
Community
Slack ops (moderation, welcome flows, governance); live sessions (office hours, town halls, 1:1 onboarding); GitHub ops (issue triage, PR review, repo hygiene); launch coordination (HN, Product Hunt); meetups, hackathons and build challenges; workshops; education partnerships; a hiring pipeline through the community.
Product feedback & DX
Feedback synthesis; user interviews and a design-partner / advisory board; usage analytics; experience audits across onboarding, API ergonomics, error messages, SDK quality and local dev.
Partnerships & ecosystem
Demos, lunch & learns, champion enablement; co-marketing (joint webinars, newsletters, cross-promo); integrations and the plugin ecosystem.
Ops
DevRel metrics and OKRs; the tooling stack (Slack agents, docs site, video production); crisis comms across X, LinkedIn and GitHub.
Must have
- Slop King/Queen — you live in Claude Code / Codex / Hermes and can orchestrate multiple agents to do real work
- Systems thinker, builder by default — you ship internal tooling, automate your own job, and wire things into existing systems
- High agency, high ownership — you don't wait, you ship
- Credible to devs and power users — opinionated, technical, in public
Nice to have
- Time in OSS infra / dev-tools communities
- Can contribute to the graph engine itself — comfortable in the codebase, not just around it
- Background in knowledge graphs, context graphs, or agentic memory
- Built internal agent tooling or automation at a previous role
- A technical writing or speaking history
- Have run your own community
Who you'll work with
The founding team, from day one. Direct access to the founders and the engineering team for docs, escalation, and roadmap. You set the DevRel strategy; we give you the access and the budget to run it.
Compensation & logistics
- Meaningful equity — this is one of the crucial early roles
- Remote-first, with monthly offsites — relocation to London or SF possible later
- Unlimited token access to Claude, Codex, and every AI tool
- Direct access to the founders, and the budget to run the function your way
Apply now
If this sounds like you, email careers@modernrelay.com with the subject line "Application: Founding Developer Advocate". Attach a resume, point us at work you're proud of, and tell us what you'd build first.
We read every application. We write back within a week.