This mid-2026 snapshot shows where Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, and Developer Experience roles cluster, where listings appear, and their indicative salary and seniority bands. Postings change daily, so current applications still require a fresh job-board search.
How to find live listings
These are the actively-maintained DevRel-specific listings and aggregators in 2026:
- DevRel.jobs. Curated DevRel-specific board.
- devrelcareers.com. Job board and career resources.
- DevRel Collective Slack.
#jobschannel; many roles posted internally before going public. - Hoopy / DeveloperRelations.com. Periodic job postings via the DevRelCon mailing list.
- The Developer Relations Foundation (under Linux Foundation): Job board forming as of 2025 to 2026.
- Hacker News “Who’s Hiring?”. Monthly thread; substantial DevRel postings.
- LinkedIn search by title: “Developer Advocate,” “Developer Relations,” “Developer Experience,” “Developer Evangelist,” “Community Manager (developer),” “Developer Educator,” “Technical Writer (developer).”
- Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent). Strong for startup DevRel roles.
- Built In, Built In NYC/SF/LA/Chicago. Regional tech job boards.
- RemoteOK, We Work Remotely, Remote Rocketship. Remote-first DevRel postings.
- Greenhouse / Lever / Ashby company career pages. Direct postings from companies.
- Web3.career. Active for blockchain/crypto DevRel.
For compensation triangulation: levels.fyi, Glassdoor, AmbitionBox (India), kununu (DACH), Talent.com, Otta (UK / EU).
Where DevRel is hiring in 2026
Based on May 2026 market observation, the most active hiring categories are roughly in this order:
1. AI / ML companies (largest current hiring pipeline)
One of the most active categories. Foundation-model providers and AI-tooling companies have built and continue to expand DevRel teams.
| Company | Typical roles | Region | Approx. salary range (USD, total comp) |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | Developer Advocate, Solutions Architect, Developer Experience Engineer | SF Bay / NYC / London / Singapore | $250k to $500k (Senior to Staff) |
| Anthropic | Developer Relations, Claude Developer Experience | SF Bay / Remote US | $250k to $450k |
| Google DeepMind / Google AI Studio | Developer Advocate / Product Lead | Mountain View / London | $250k to $450k |
| NVIDIA | Developer Relations Manager (AI, accelerated computing) | Santa Clara / Remote US | $152k to $288k base + equity |
| Hugging Face | Machine Learning DevRel, Community Engineer | Paris / NYC / Remote | $140k to $260k |
| Cohere | Developer Advocate | Toronto / SF / Remote | $150k to $280k |
| Mistral AI | Developer Advocate | Paris / SF | €120k to €220k |
| LangChain | Developer Relations Engineer | Remote | $150k to $280k |
| LlamaIndex | DevRel Engineer | Remote | $150k to $260k |
| Pinecone / Weaviate / Chroma / Qdrant | Senior Developer Advocate | Remote | $140k to $240k |
| Modal Labs / Together AI / Replicate | Developer Advocate | Remote | $150k to $260k |
| You.com | Senior AI Developer Relations Engineer | SF Bay | $180k to $220k |
| Runpod | Developer Relations / Community | Remote | $130k to $200k |
2. Cloud and infrastructure
Mature DevRel programs with regular openings.
| Company | Typical roles | Region | Approx. salary range |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | Developer Advocate, Senior DA, Principal DA, Hero Program Manager | Global (US, EU, APAC, India, LATAM) | $160k to $400k+ |
| Microsoft (Cloud Advocates) | Cloud Advocate, Senior, Principal | Global, mostly remote | $170k to $400k |
| Google Cloud | Developer Advocate, Customer Engineer | US / EU / APAC | $200k to $400k |
| Cloudflare | Developer Advocate (Workers / Pages / R2) | Remote US / EU | $170k to $320k |
| DigitalOcean | Developer Advocate, Community Manager | Remote | $130k to $220k |
| Oracle | ACE Program Manager, OCI Advocate | US / India | $130k to $280k |
| HashiCorp / IBM | Developer Advocate (Terraform / Vault / Consul) | Remote-friendly | $180k to $350k |
| Vercel | Developer Advocate, Solutions Engineer | Remote (US / EU) | $200k to $400k |
| Netlify | Developer Experience Engineer | Remote | $160k to $300k |
| Render / Fly.io / Railway | DevRel Engineer | Remote | $140k to $250k |
3. API-first / developer-product companies
| Company | Typical roles | Region | Approx. salary range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stripe | Developer Advocate, Developer Experience Engineer | SF / NYC / Dublin / Singapore | $230k to $450k |
| Twilio | Developer Evangelist, Senior, Principal | SF / London / Bogotá | $180k to $380k |
| Postman | Developer Advocate, Student Program Manager | SF / Bangalore / Remote | $130k to $280k |
| Auth0 / Okta | Senior Developer Content Advocate, Ambassador Program | Remote | $180k to $320k |
| Algolia | Developer Advocate | SF / Paris | $160k to $280k |
| Plaid | Developer Advocate | NYC / SF | $180k to $320k |
| Resend / Loops / Mailgun | Developer Advocate | Remote | $130k to $220k |
| Ably / PubNub / Stream | Developer Advocate | Remote / London / SF | $130k to $250k |
| ngrok | Senior / Principal Developer Advocate | Remote | $170k to $320k |
| Box | Developer Relations Engineer | Redwood City / Remote | $160k to $280k |
| MuleSoft (Salesforce) | Developer Advocate, Ambassador Program | SF / Buenos Aires | $160k to $300k |
4. Databases, data, and analytics
| Company | Typical roles | Region | Approx. salary range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB | Developer Advocate, Champion Program Manager | Global | $170k to $320k |
| Snowflake | Developer Advocate, Data Superhero Manager | SF / EMEA / APAC | $200k to $400k |
| Databricks | Developer Advocate, Data + AI Summit Lead | SF / EMEA / India | $200k to $400k |
| Confluent | Developer Advocate (Kafka) | Remote / Mountain View | $180k to $350k |
| Elastic | Developer Advocate | Remote | $160k to $300k |
| Redis | Developer Advocate | Remote / Tel Aviv / SF | $150k to $280k |
| Neon / Supabase / PlanetScale | Senior Developer Advocate | Remote | $150k to $280k |
| Timescale / InfluxData | Developer Advocate | Remote | $140k to $250k |
| ClickHouse | Developer Advocate | Remote / Bay Area | $160k to $300k |
| CockroachDB | Developer Advocate | Remote / NYC | $160k to $300k |
5. Developer tools and platforms
| Company | Typical roles | Region | Approx. salary range |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub | Senior Developer Advocate, Director DevRel | Remote / SF | $200k to $450k |
| GitLab | Developer Evangelist | Remote (any) | $150k to $300k |
| JetBrains | Developer Advocate (Kotlin / IntelliJ / specific tools) | Munich / Prague / Amsterdam / Remote | €100k to €220k |
| Sentry | Developer Advocate | Remote / SF | $160k to $300k |
| Datadog | Developer Advocate, Ambassador Manager | NYC / Paris / Remote | $180k to $330k |
| PagerDuty | Developer Advocate | Remote | $160k to $280k |
| LaunchDarkly | Developer Advocate | Remote | $170k to $300k |
| Snyk | Developer Advocate (security) | Remote / London / Boston | $160k to $300k |
| New Relic | Developer Advocate | Remote / SF / Portland | $150k to $280k |
6. Web3 / blockchain (continued hiring)
| Company | Typical roles | Region | Approx. salary range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossmint | Senior Developer Relations Engineer | Remote | $140k to $175k |
| Tether Operations | Developer Relations (P2P, AI) | Remote (EU, Dubai, Cairo) | $115k to $140k |
| TON Foundation | Developer Relations Engineer | Remote (CIS-aligned) | Variable |
| Autheo Foundation | Developer Relations Lead | US | $36k to $70k (early-stage) |
| Alchemy / Infura / QuickNode | Developer Advocate | Remote | $150k to $280k |
| Coinbase Developer Platform | Developer Advocate | Remote / SF / NYC | $200k to $380k |
7. Hardware and edge
| Company | Typical roles | Region | Approx. salary range |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA (broader) | DevRel Engineer (CUDA, AI, robotics) | Santa Clara / Remote | $152k to $320k |
| Intel | Developer Relations (oneAPI, OpenVINO) | Hillsboro / Santa Clara | $150k to $280k |
| Arm | Developer Relations (On-Device AI, Edge & Mobile) | Cambridge / Remote | £80k to £160k |
| AMD | Developer Advocate (ROCm) | Remote | $160k to $300k |
| Qualcomm | Developer Advocate (Snapdragon, on-device AI) | San Diego / Remote | $160k to $280k |
8. Gaming, mobile, and creative
| Company | Typical roles | Region | Approx. salary range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unity | Developer Advocate | SF / Remote | $150k to $280k |
| Epic Games | Developer Advocate (Unreal) | Cary, NC / Remote | $150k to $280k |
| RevenueCat | Developer Advocate | Remote | $160k to $280k |
| Figma | Developer Advocate (Figma APIs / Plugin platform) | SF / Remote | $200k to $380k |
Salary structure by level (US, mid-2026)
Total compensation typically includes base + equity + bonus. Ranges below reflect mid-market developer-product companies. Top-tier (FAANG-class AI labs, Stripe, etc.) pay above these ranges; early-stage startups pay below.
| Level | Title (typical) | US TC range (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| L3 | Developer Advocate (Associate) | $130k to $180k |
| L4 | Developer Advocate | $160k to $240k |
| L5 | Senior Developer Advocate | $200k to $300k |
| L6 | Staff Developer Advocate | $260k to $420k |
| L7 | Principal Developer Advocate | $350k to $580k |
| L8 | Distinguished DA / Fellow | $500k to $900k+ |
| M1 | Manager, DevRel | $260k to $400k |
| M2 | Senior Manager / Director | $350k to $600k |
| M3 | VP / Head of DevRel | $450k to $900k+ |
| M4 | SVP / CDRO | $600k to $1.5M+ |
Salary structure by region (approximate, 2026)
Ratios to US compensation at equivalent levels:
| Region | Ratio | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| US (SF Bay / NYC) | 1.0 | Reference point |
| US (other major cities, remote) | 0.85 to 0.95 | Some companies apply geo-pay-bands |
| Canada (Toronto / Vancouver) | 0.75 to 0.90 | |
| UK (London) | 0.65 to 0.85 | Substantial variance between US-HQ remote and UK-HQ roles |
| Germany / Netherlands / France | 0.55 to 0.80 | |
| Nordics (Stockholm, Copenhagen) | 0.65 to 0.85 | |
| Eastern Europe (Poland, Czechia, Portugal) | 0.40 to 0.65 | |
| Israel (Tel Aviv) | 0.75 to 0.95 | Strong AI/security DevRel hiring |
| India (Bangalore, Hyderabad) | 0.25 to 0.55 | USD-pay remote roles can break these bands |
| Singapore | 0.65 to 0.85 | |
| Japan (Tokyo) | 0.55 to 0.75 | |
| Australia (Sydney, Melbourne) | 0.75 to 0.90 | |
| Brazil / Mexico / LATAM | 0.30 to 0.60 | USD-pay remote roles can break these bands |
| Nigeria / Kenya / South Africa | 0.20 to 0.45 | Same caveat: remote-USD roles outliers |
These are crude approximations. A major variable is whether the role pays in a local-currency band or in USD against a global band. The 2020 to 2024 remote boom expanded global USD-band hiring substantially; some companies have since recalibrated to local bands.
Hiring patterns to know
A few observations worth knowing if you are looking:
- AI roles often require demonstrable AI-engineering depth. Candidates can differentiate themselves with a portfolio of relevant engineering work rather than generic AI content.
- Remote-first companies have specific cultural fit demands. Async writing skill is a real filter at fully-remote companies (GitLab, Vercel, Cloudflare, Postman, HashiCorp). A strong written-portfolio applicant has meaningful advantage.
- Marketing-reporting roles offer lower comp than engineering-reporting roles at the same level. Check the reporting line during the recruiter call.
- Director / VP roles often go through founder networks first. Public postings reflect about 60 to 70% of senior DevRel openings; the rest are filled through referrals.
- AI-Engineer-specific roles increasingly require a portfolio of LLM-application work. Generic developer-content portfolios underperform.
- Some US-headquartered companies hire remotely in Latin America, especially AI companies and PLG developer products. Candidates should show relevant work in an English-language portfolio.
Roles in adjacent functions worth considering
For DevRel professionals who feel limited by current DevRel postings, several adjacent functions have been expanding hiring substantially since 2023:
- Developer Experience Engineer at product / engineering orgs (often pays more than equivalent DevRel level).
- Solutions Engineer / Pre-sales Engineer at developer-product companies (higher OTE on commission structures).
- Product Manager, Developer Platform. Many former DevRel professionals transition here.
- Technical Writer / Documentation Engineer. Mature roles at large developer companies (Stripe, Twilio, AWS).
- Customer Engineer (Google Cloud’s term; equivalent at other clouds): Pre-sales technical role.
- Open Source Program Manager (OSPM). In OSPOs at companies that fund or contribute to open source.
- AI Engineer / ML Engineer. Senior DevRel professionals with strong AI-application portfolios are increasingly moving to direct AI-engineering roles.
How to read this snapshot
This document supports broad market comparisons, not live job searches. Opening counts and the list of hiring companies change weekly. Use it as a reference for:
- Estimating realistic compensation for a level.
- Identifying which industries are currently growing DevRel.
- Knowing where to look for live postings.
- Triangulating recruiter offers against industry medians.
For a current live search, set up saved searches on LinkedIn, RemoteOK, devrelcareers.com, DevRel.jobs, and the Hacker News monthly thread, and check them weekly.
See also
- DevRel hiring and careers
- DevRel job titles
- DevRel org structures
- Layoffs and recovery
- DevRel agencies and consultancies
../05-companies/: Company-by-company program detail.