Founding Developer Advocate at Infracost | Y Combinator
Overview
The spend on public cloud is fast approaching $1 trillion per year - we estimate this boundary will be crossed before
the turn of the decade.
Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and platform engineering have fundamentally changed who
makes spending decisions. In the past, only a central team provisioned cloud resources. Now every engineer can provision
resources as needed; every engineer has become a buyer.
Infracost helps engineers see the cost of their code changes before any money has been spent - we sit in the engineering
workflow, show the cost impact, and suggest optimizations. That’s what we mean by “Shift FinOps Left”, and we’ve seen
strong pull from engineers who use Infracost in their terminals, CI/CD pipelines and IDEs. The Infracost CLI repo
has 12K stars on GitHub! There’s a massive opportunity to help organizations proactively manage their cloud spend;
rather than reacting to surprise cost spikes after the fact. We know reactive is too late; we saw that firsthand with
our first startup a decade ago, and we’re building Infracost to change that.
About the role
We’re hiring our first Developer Advocate to help more engineers discover and fall in love with Infracost. Your mission
is simple: increase signups by showing DevOps, SRE, Platform, and Infrastructure engineers the value of Infracost in the
channels and workflows they already use.
You’ll work closely with our Developer Adoption product engineering team, which is focused on DX: CLI, VS Code &
JetBrains extensions, MCP server, Copilot integrations…
Timezone
We are fully remote and the ideal timezone for this role is US Eastern time to have overlap with the West Coast and
Europe.
Responsibilities
- Drive adoption: This is a founding role; you’ll shape how we engage with developers, what channels we double down
on, and how we turn interest into adoption. You’ll collaborate with marketing, product and engineering, but you’ll
own the developer voice outside the company.
- Create content: Create compelling content (blog posts, videos, tutorials, demos, sample code, example repos) that
show developers how to use Infracost and integrate it into their workflow.
- Build community: Build awareness through GitHub, Slack, YouTube, Reddit, Hacker News, and relevant dev communities
or podcasts. Test messaging, content formats, and distribution strategies with one goal in mind: increasing
developer signups.
- Feedback loop: Collect insights from the community, report back to product and engineering, and help shape the
roadmap.
Prior experience
- Developer-first mindset: Background in DevOps and Infrastructure as Code with a passion for educating and enabling
developers.
- Content creation: Demonstrated ability to create engaging technical content; blogs, videos and social media posts.
- Community building: Experience engaging with developer communities online and offline. Ability to simplify technical
concepts into clear, developer-friendly messages.
- Significant advantage: Experience building developer tools, working in a fast-growing startup, or domain expertise
with cloud costs. Experience connecting products to engineers working within large enterprises.
What we value
1. Ustomer, not customer: It is all about seeing us and the customer as one. We like to be a part of the user’s team,
and help them however we can. If the user is not successful, then we will not be either so we try to walk in their
shoes. It's more than work - we build relationships and community with users and customers.
2. Open is our core: Put yourself out there. Show your learning. Transparency builds confidence. Encourage sharing the
good and the bad. The best decisions are made when everyone has access to all the data. Be straightforward and kind,
feedback is about your work not your person.
3. Let's JEDI: Let’s Just Effing Do It! Own it and move fast. A good plan fiercely executed now is better than a
perfect plan later. We ask for help and unblock each other. The main thing, is to keep the main thing, the main
thing.
Benefits
- Fully remote team
- Two meetups a year - last year we went to Croatia and Barcelona.
- Employee-friendly equity terms, including a 10 year exercise window
- 401k matching (US)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
- 31 days paid leave per year (includes national holidays)
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
