Descope is a developer-first identity provider that simplifies authentication for developers. The Developer Experience Engineer will engage with developers, lead technical integrations, and create content to facilitate the adoption of Descope's services.
Responsibilities:
- Engage with developers to understand their use cases, challenges, and goals, and provide hands on technical guidance throughout the integration journey
- Lead implementation efforts and POCs, helping customers design, deploy, and troubleshoot Descope within their applications
- Partner with Product and Engineering to translate community feedback into actionable product improvements
- Create high quality technical content including documentation, guides, sample apps, videos, and demos
- Contribute to open source projects and build integrations across different platforms and frameworks
- Plan and deliver developer focused events such as workshops, webinars, hackathons, and conference talks
- Manage and engage across developer communication channels including Slack, forums, and public communities
- Support product launches by enabling the developer community with clear, practical, and usable resources
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in Developer Relations, Solutions Engineering, Developer Experience Engineer or a similar customer facing technical role
- Strong software engineering background with hands on coding experience
- Proficiency in one or more languages such as JavaScript, Python, or Go
- Experience working directly with developers on integrations, implementations, or technical onboarding
- Solid understanding of authentication and authorization concepts including modern AuthN and AuthZ approaches
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly to different audiences
- Experience building technical content such as documentation, demos, or tutorials
- Comfortable working cross functionally with Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams
- Experience with developer communities, forums, or open source contributions
- Background in identity, security, or authentication platforms
- Experience speaking at conferences or running technical events