Community Engineer (multiple roles and seniority levels)
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About the Role
This role bridges developers, contributors, and engineering teams to shape and scale global open source communities. You will lead community initiatives, improve contributor workflows, and represent community perspectives internally.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and support community initiatives by designing, coordinating, and scaling programs that strengthen engagement across open source ecosystems.
- Act as a liaison between community contributors and internal engineering, product, and developer relations teams.
- Facilitate contributions by improving workflows, reducing friction, and enabling contributors to successfully deliver technical projects.
- Produce high quality written and technical content such as blog posts, updates, and documentation.
- Engage actively with open source communities across platforms such as forums, chat systems, social channels, and events.
- Represent the organization and its community at conferences, meetups, and industry events through talks and presentations.
- Identify and drive opportunities to improve community tooling, processes, and contributor experience at scale.
Requirements
- Strong passion for open source software, Linux ecosystems, and collaborative software development.
- Demonstrated experience engaging with open source communities with a visible public track record (e.g., GitHub contributions, talks, blog posts).
- Strong understanding of developer workflows and experience with tools used in open source development (e.g., version control, CI/CD, packaging, DevOps, or containers).
- Experience working with or contributing to Linux based systems, with exposure to Ubuntu or similar distributions preferred.
- Excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills.
- Strong organizational and program management skills.
- Self motivated and comfortable working autonomously in a fully remote, globally distributed environment.
- Experience in community management, developer advocacy, or software development is highly desirable.
- Flexibility to travel internationally for in person events and collaboration sessions.
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Role Overview
- This role offers the opportunity to shape and scale global open source communities that power some of the most widely used Linux based technologies in the world.
- You will act as a bridge between developers, contributors, and engineering teams, ensuring that community driven initiatives are effectively aligned with broader technical roadmaps.
- The role blends technical understanding with community leadership, requiring both hands on engagement with open source ecosystems and strategic program execution.
Accountabilities
- Lead and support community initiatives by designing, coordinating, and scaling programs that strengthen engagement across open source ecosystems.
- Act as a liaison between community contributors and internal engineering, product, and developer relations teams to ensure alignment and efficiency.
- Facilitate contributions by improving workflows, reducing friction, and enabling contributors to successfully deliver technical projects.
- Produce high quality written and technical content such as blog posts, updates, and documentation to communicate community progress and initiatives.
- Engage actively with open source communities across platforms such as forums, chat systems, social channels, and events.
- Represent the organization and its community at conferences, meetups, and industry events through talks and presentations.
- Identify and drive opportunities to improve community tooling, processes, and contributor experience at scale.
Requirements
- Strong passion for open source software, Linux ecosystems, and collaborative software development.
- Demonstrated experience engaging with open source communities, with a visible public track record (e.g., GitHub contributions, talks, blog posts, or similar).
- Strong understanding of developer workflows and experience with tools used in open source development (e.g., version control, CI/CD, packaging, DevOps, or containers).
- Experience working with or contributing to Linux based systems, with exposure to Ubuntu or similar distributions preferred.
- Excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non technical audiences.
- Strong organizational and program management skills, with the ability to lead cross functional initiatives independently.
- Self motivated, accountable, and comfortable working autonomously in a fully remote, globally distributed environment.
- Experience in community management, developer advocacy, or software development is highly desirable.
- Flexibility to travel internationally for in person events and collaboration sessions.
Benefits
- Competitive global compensation aligned with experience, location, and performance.
- Performance based annual bonus or commission structure.
- Annual salary and performance reviews to recognize contributions.
- Fully remote, distributed work environment with global collaboration.
- USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget.
- Generous annual leave plus maternity and paternity leave policies.
- Employee Assistance Program supporting wellbeing and personal needs.
- Opportunities to travel internationally for conferences, internal events, and community engagement.
- Travel benefits including Priority Pass and upgrades for long haul travel to company events.
- Recognition programs celebrating impact and contributions across the community and organization.
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