At Prisma, we’re redefining how developers work with databases. If you’re fascinated by the cutting-edge data infrastructure powering companies like Twitter, Airbnb, and Facebook—but want the agility, ownership, and impact of a fast-moving startup—Prisma is the place for you.
Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors like Amplify Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and IVP, our small, distributed team is making advanced database technology accessible to developers everywhere. Our open-source tools are trusted by over 400,000 developers each month, with a thriving community on Discord and GitHub, where we’ve earned 41,000+ GitHub Stars.
At the heart of our commercial offerings is Prisma Postgres, our flagship product designed to supercharge PostgreSQL with modern developer workflows, performance optimizations, and seamless scaling. Alongside it, Prisma Accelerate, and Studio provide a world-class toolkit for building with data.
By combining the power of open-source with cutting-edge commercial solutions, we’re shaping the future of databases—one developer at a time.
What would you do at Prisma?
As a Senior Developer Advocate, you’ll be a hands-on creator and communicator, driving Prisma’s social media presence, video content, and contributing to our feature and product launches. You’ll specialize in execution—taking strategies and goals and turning them into high-quality, engaging content that grows Prisma’s reach and adoption.
We anticipate you to be responsible for:
- Leading social media growth
- Own and execute content planning and publishing on Prisma’s social media accounts with a consistent, trusted developer voice.
- Drive measurable growth in reach, followers, and engagement.
- Producing video content
- Execute Prisma’s video strategy, from ideation to production.
- Create tutorials, launch videos, and explainers that help developers quickly understand and adopt Prisma.
- Drive Adoption Through Education
- Create guides, tutorials, and examples that complement launches and onboarding paths and translates technical features into benefit-driven stories.
- Repurpose video and social content into actionable learning material.
- Community Engagement
- Actively engage with Prisma’s community on Discord, GitHub, and social platforms.
- Product Feedback
- Share feedback with product and advocacy peers to improve messaging and developer experience, helping us build the right thing.
- Mentorship & team contribution
- Share expertise in social media and video production with the broader team.
- Support the team by reviewing content and contributing to shared projects.
An Ideal Candidate Profile
We believe the right candidate for this position should meet a majority of the criteria listed below:
- At least 3 years of experience in Developer Advocacy, Developer Relations, or a related function, with demonstrable impact on outcomes.
- Proven success managing social media for a technical brand or product, with measurable follower and engagement growth.
- Strong video production skills, including scripting, recording, editing, and publishing developer-focused video content.
- Experience supporting product launches, contributing content that makes features accessible and compelling.
- Deep technical expertise in databases (especially Postgres), with strong knowledge of related technologies (SQL, cloud platforms, APIs, Node.js, TypeScript).
- Excellent writing and communication skills, able to create content that is clear, engaging, and developer-friendly. Along with providing clarity across teams.
- Independence and ownership: able to take ideas from concept through execution with minimal guidance.
- Team player and mentor, able to share best practices in content and social growth.
The following experience would also be a plus:
- Experience with TypeScript and Node.js ecosystems.
- Speaking experience at conferences, webinars, or livestreams.
What's it like to work at Prisma?
You’re likely to be a great fit for the team if you …
- … have an ownership mindset. You thrive when given high-level goals and the freedom to chart the path to success.
- … are outcome-driven. You connect your work to measurable impact, always tying activities back to company objectives and goals.
- … think strategically. You’re not just executing—you're looking around corners to spot what others might be missing.
- … be collaborative and kind. You enjoy partnering with teams to make our initiatives successful.
What's in it for you?
We put our people first**.** Strong pay, full flexibility, and benefits that make a difference. Take the time off that you need, grow your career, and do work that matters.
- An opportunity to help drive adoption of Prisma’s cutting-edge cloud products, driving innovation in modern database tooling and redefining how developers build and scale applications — see what we’re building.
- A Fun and Supportive Team that values collaboration, growth, and continuous learning.
- Competitive Base Salary and Stock Options, including extended post-termination exercise windows.
- Fully Remote Work with flexibility to work from anywhere within our required time zones. If you prefer an office environment, we provide access to a local co-working space for up to ten days per month.
- Generous Time Off, including twenty-four days of paid vacation and paid sick leave.
- Parental Benefits, including twenty weeks of fully paid parental leave and child sick leave.
- Sabbatical Leave, with six weeks of fully paid time off after three years of continuous employment.
- Mental Health Support, including four fully paid Mental Health Days per year and access to professional resources.
- Tech and Ergonomic Budget to equip you with the tools you need, plus an ergonomic chair subsidy for your comfort and well-being.
- Annual Offsites, bringing the team together twice a year with all expenses paid retreats at exciting locations.
- Relocation Support, offering a relocation package for team members moving to Berlin after twelve months, if you choose to relocate.
- [US] Health and Pension Benefits, including comprehensive health, dental, vision, and 401k matching.
Remote Work
To ensure effective collaboration we can currently only accept candidates within the timezone GMT -2 to GMT +3 for this position.
What is our hiring process like?
- Introductory call with the Hiring Manager.
- Take-home challenge (with compensation) and a debrief with the Developer Advocacy team.
- Cross-Functional Interview with members of the Engineering and Product Team.
- Interview with our Head of Developer Connections.
- Interview with our COO.
- Offer
The above serves as a basic outline, we might choose to add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.
If you believe that this is the right position for you then please send your resume along with any supporting documentation or information to us via the link provided on this page. We typically respond within 7 business days.
In line with our Fair Treatment and Equal Opportunity Policy, as well as our Disability Policy, Prisma follows fair and merit-based hiring practices, ensuring all candidates are evaluated based on their skills, experience, and qualifications. We do not make hiring decisions based on age, race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, parental or caregiver status, trade union membership, disability, religious belief or lack of belief, life expectancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran or military status.
