Founding Developer Relations Lead
New York City$150k - $300kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Founding Developer Relations Lead at Asymptote Labs to build the defining open-source community in AI agent security, drive adoption of Beacon, contribute to open-source ecosystem, and shape developer strategy from day one.
Responsibilities
- Grow and nurture the Beacon open-source community.
- Contribute code, examples, integrations, and tooling to the project.
- Build relationships with OSS maintainers, AI tooling companies, and security practitioners.
- Become a trusted voice within the AI, developer, and cybersecurity communities.
- Represent Asymptote at conferences, hackathons, meetups, podcasts, and technical events.
- Publish high-quality technical blogs, demos, tutorials, videos, and example projects.
- Showcase new product launches, integrations, and real-world use cases.
- Build educational content that helps developers deploy Beacon in minutes.
- Demonstrate what's possible with AI agent telemetry and security.
- Create world-class onboarding, documentation, and developer experiences.
- Partner with Engineering to make Beacon delightful to integrate and extend.
- Help developers successfully deploy Beacon across their environments.
- Identify friction points and advocate for product improvements.
- Expand integrations across AI coding assistants, security tools, SIEMs, and cloud platforms.
- Build reference architectures, starter projects, and community examples.
- Support strategic technical partnerships.
- Help establish Beacon as the open telemetry standard for AI agent security.
- Gather feedback from developers, security teams, and design partners.
- Bring community insights directly into product roadmap discussions.
- Work closely with Engineering on developer experience, APIs, and SDKs.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, Solutions Engineering, or a similarly technical GTM role.
- Experience at a high-growth AI, developer tools, infrastructure, or cybersecurity company.
- Strong software engineering background with the ability to build production-ready demos and contribute to open-source codebases.
- Proven track record of creating technical content that drives developer adoption (blogs, talks, videos, workshops, or tutorials).
- Experience growing an open-source community or developer ecosystem.
- Exceptional technical communication skills—you can explain complex systems to developers without oversimplifying.
- High agency and excited to build Asymptote's DevRel function from the ground up.
Skills
Required:Developer Relations / Developer AdvocacyOpen-source community buildingTechnical content creationSoftware engineering
Nice to have:Public speaking & community representation
Benefits
- Meaningful founding-stage equity for the right candidate.
Last updated Aug 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Asymptote
The Security Harness for AI Agents
Asymptote is the AI Detection & Response layer for every agent harness. Deploy in minutes, get complete runtime visibility, and implement policy controls across your environment.
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