Community Engineer

About Garden

Garden's mission is to keep developers productive and happy in the cloud-native

Docker, Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies have made us better than ever at operating our systems in production, but the day-to-day development experience has been left lagging

Developers spend less time in flow, and more time waiting for builds, debugging scripts, or otherwise fighting their We're here to fix

Our platform which includes our open source core product allows developer to work on distributed systems in remote, production-like dev environments while enjoying the same fast and frictionless feedback loops we've come to expect when developing a single service

It's a platform that democratizes the kind of advanced developer tooling that only the largest software companies have the resources to build and

We're still a small team and you'd be joining as an individual contributor at a time where you can have a huge impact on our product and our If you've ever thought to yourself that something's not right with our modern development workflows, now's your chance to help fix i

Tasks

As a Community Engineer, you ll empower Garden s community champions, steer the direction of our OSS product by bridging feedback to our engineering teams, and speak directly with Garden s users in service of making Garden the best user experience it can

More specifically you ll:

• Create demo projects, tutorials, and various other creative content to ease adoption of Garden for DevOps Engineers, SREs, and
• Think big and create your own community initiatives to drive adoption and activate our
• Speak directly to our engineering teams with feedback from the community, write GitHub issues, and facilitate community contributions to Garden

Requirements

• You re passionate about developer productivity and removing obstacles to a smooth, easy developer
• You love technical writing and love helping people to understand complex technical topics in an accessible
• Connecting with community whether on the stage or informally has been an important part of your career or you think it could be, given the

Here s your chance to bring your passion to Garden s community and customers with examples and technical content that accelerate their delivery

Qualifications

• You have 2+ years of Kubernetes

• You have excellent interpersonal and written communication

• You re passionate about open source products and

• Experience writing code (in particular in ) is a big plus but not a

• You're happy to work with a team that is still figuring a lot of things out, and values trust, openness, and collaboration while doing

We explicitly encourage applications from groups that are underrepresented in We celebrate and encourage diversity of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age and Diversity is easier said than done but it's one of our founding principles to provide a diverse and inclusive

Benefits

• A culture fostering individuals and teams to do their best work in a friendly, positive, diverse and inclusive

• A policy of no meetings Tuesday through We respect your right to Deep

• Competitive compensation

• You can work fully remote or join us at our HQ in vibrant Berlin, Germany (see Remote s Country Explorer for a list of all countries we support)

• Wellness stipend and membership in Berlin

• Your own work computer of your choice with OS of your choice (macOS, Linux, or Windows)

• 2000 Euro yearly professional development stipend

Our Process

We're a small team that tries to keep things simple and lean and that applies to our interview process as

The first step is an intro call with our Director of The goal is to give both parties a chance to get to know each other, ask questions and discuss the culture at Garden, as well as to talk about salary and The next step is an Interview with someone from our Community Engineering team and The goal is to give both parties a chance to get to know one another and to discuss the

After that you ll have a 60-minute technical interview with our We have a real conversation about things you've actually done in the past and dig deep into

The final step is a 60-minute demo + Q& In the demo you present work you ve done in the past to people from our engineering We want everyone involved in the process, so this is also a chance for you to meet the rest of the team and vice vers