Ever wonder what it means to work with petabytes of data coming from satellites orbiting the earth and processing them across servers distributed throughout the world in real-time? Simply put, DigitalGlobe engineers make computers do amazing things. Populated by extraordinarily innovative, creative, motivated and talented people, our engineering team gets excited by developing products that really make a difference and are used by millions of people.

We’re driven by DigitalGlobe’s mission to be the world leader in geospatial content which means some of the most interesting and challenging problems. If you seek to tackle such challenges as how to make machine learning and advanced computer vision algorithms running on 90 petabytes of data accessible to end-users who don’t even know, or want to know, what that means. If you are excited by helping grow a community to interact with complex information in simple and intuitive ways then this might be a perfect fit for you.

We currently have an opening for a Senior Developer Advocate to join an innovative start-up division of an established technology company. Remote or based out of either our Westminster, CO or Herndon, VA offices, this is a unique role, requiring strong initiative, leadership, and market experience in building developer communities for new technologies. The DigitalGlobe UPS team is growing its developer outreach capability and needs a senior developer advocate to lead the new capability

• Actively promote GBDX across social media channels and support users. Highlight new content and how GBDX can be applied to various market uses.

• Help support community outreach around DG Open Data events specifically targeted towards engaging developers on the platform.

• Create and organize a calendar of developer events and conferences to organize, speak at or attend to help grow the GBDX developer community.

• Work with TDG marketing to find opportunities to highlight GBDX in developer centric media.

• Help the team coordinate user and community support for GBDX Notebooks. Monitor the Notebooks site, Intercom, Feedback Tab and Slack for user issues and provide guidance and help.

• Lead the build out for tutorial and use case notebooks to be shared with the community highlighting platform features and vertical solutions.

• Work with product management to collect and organize developer feedback to inform documentation, integrated help systems, and the product roadmap and feature fixes/upgrades.

Basic Requirements:

• Working competency in Python and Jupyter Notebooks on a daily basis 1) writing fresh content for remote sensing and ML analytics, 2) troubleshooting users code and errors to help them succeed with GBDX/Notebooks and 3) help supporting GBDX's open source Github repos.

• Familiarity with crowdsourcing methods and community building strategies.

• Citizen of The United States or Permanent Resident.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fluency interacting with and supporting users through eveloper channels e.g. Github, Slack, Intercom, JIRA.

• Confident public speaker with the technical fluency to engage with the developer community covering both conference talks and running coding centric workshops.

• experience working within crowdsourced communities e.g. OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Tomnod, Github.

DigitalGlobe and Radiant solutions offer a generous compensation package including a competitive salary; choice of medical plan; dental, life, and disability insurance; a 401(K) plan with competitive company match; paid holidays and paid time off.