Principal Developer Advocate
Microsoft
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.
Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.
We're seeking a Principal Developer Advocate to champion the adoption of our Postgres database services and application frameworks in application developer communities around the globe. This role is deeply embedded as part of our product team, and serves as the connective tissue between product strategy and developer community. You'll combine deep hands-on development expertise with thought leadership to win over application developers and drive Azure Postgres service adoption through authentic developer storytelling. Work hands-on to improve and refine our libraries and the developer experience as a whole.
We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.
Responsibilities
- Craft compelling technical narratives that show how our database platform enhances workflows of database administrators and productivity of application developers especially when building Generative AI agents.
- Organize and deliver live presentations, workshops, and webinars to drive awareness and practical adoption.
- Create technical content (tutorials, sample apps, blog posts, videos) that demonstrates real-world uses and best practices for the company’s platform or APIs.
- Maintain and contribute to developer-facing documentation, SDKs, command-line tools, and code examples to improve onboarding and reduce friction.
- Act as the primary liaison between the developer community and engineering team; surface feature requests and usability issues.
- Advocate for developer-first design inside the team by insisting on clarity, tooling, and workflows that reduce cognitive load and friction.
- Measure and report on developer metrics (adoption, retention, active usage, contributions) and craft narratives to show business impact.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree ANDnexperience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
- Experience in database management
Job Requirements: Other & Additional
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred/Additional Qualifications
Hands-on coding experience:
- Postgres database expertise
- Postgres performance analysis and optimization expertise
- GenAI/ML expertise, including hands-on AI app development and deployment
- Front-end frameworks and component libraries experience
- Generative AI agent frameworks expertise
- API design and consumption
- Building and publishing SDKs and client libraries
- Sample app architecture and full-stack demo construction
- Debugging tools and troubleshooting production issues
- Git workflows and open-source contribution patterns
- Containerization (Docker) and local orchestration
- Azure cloud platform fundamentals
- CI/CD pipelines and release automation
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Instrumentation and monitoring basics (logs, metrics, traces)
- Command-line interface (CLI) tooling and scripting
- Package management and registry publishing (npm, PyPI)
- Security basics (auth flows, tokens, OAuth, API keys)
- Testing strategies for example code (unit/integration)
Soft Abilities:
- Public speaking and stage presence
- Technical storytelling and narrative construction
- Empathy with developer challenges and workflows
- Clear, concise technical writing for diverse audiences
- Community building and relationship management
- Feedback synthesis and product advocacy
- Time management and prioritization across travel and content creation
- Collaboration and cross-functional communication
- Problem framing and solution validation
- Adaptability and resilience under public scrutiny
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.