Developer Relations Engineer

Hatchet is a code-first orchestration engine used by companies to run AI workloads at scale.

Modern LLM-native workloads break traditional infrastructure — long-running LLM calls timeout your APIs, massive contexts crash your workers, parallel jobs flood your queues. Hatchet handles the complexity so developers can focus on features:

⚡️ real-time AI agents

⏰ long-running jobs that recover gracefully

🌊 massive parallel workloads that scale

We're 100% open source, processing billions of tasks for scale-ups and enterprises, backed by Y Combinator, and growing fast.

So far, our growth has been organic through a few Hacker News posts and word-of-mouth, but we're ready to scale up and show the world what's possible with modern low-latency async job processing, especially in AI systems. That's where you come in.

Why this role matters

We're at an inflection point. The AI explosion is creating massive demand for orchestration that can handle the new problems introduced by LLMs without the infrastructure headaches. We’re fortunate to work with hundreds of scaling AI companies and some of the top research labs with a front row view to new problems and patterns to solve them.

As our first DevRel Engineer, you'll be constantly learning to show developers what's possible when they stop hacking their infrastructure and start building with purpose-built orchestration.

You'll have the opportunity to define our developer relations strategy from the ground up while working directly with two 2x YC technical founders.

What you'll do

Own Content

Publish high-impact technical content (written or video) that showcases Hatchet's capabilities and helps developers learn quickly

Own Developer Education

Our developer docs are arguably our most important product. You’ll take ownership to both continuously improve docs and implement tooling to make them best-in-class

Build demos and tutorials

Ship real-world applications using Hatchet — intelligent agents with tool calls, autonomous research workflows, massive document processing pipelines, GPU job scheduling

Represent Hatchet

Engage authentically on Twitter, Reddit, HN, live events, and other platforms where developers discuss infrastructure pain points

Support and grow the community

Celebrate contributors, highlight cool projects, answer questions, and gather feedback from developers

You might be a fit if

• You've built full-stack AI apps — ideally Python, TypeScript, or Go and enjoy sharing what you've learned
• You create content that converts — your tutorials and demos make developers realize they need better orchestration, not just another queue
• You're comfortable representing complex technical concepts in multiple formats — writing, video, and in-person
• You're energized by community — you enjoy learning from customers, helping developers succeed, and building relationships
• You move fast, take ownership, and iterate — you're comfortable experimenting with content formats and learning from what works

Requirements

• Hands-on engineering experience (Python, TypeScript, or Go)
• Experience creating technical content (written, video, or both)
• AI domain exposure — you understand modern AI infrastructure challenges and can create compelling use cases

Bonus points for

• A growing audience on YouTube, Twitter, or other developer platforms
• Have used (and loved) Hatchet or have experience with job queues, event-driven architectures, or distributed systems
• Contributions to open source projects

What we offer

• $120k-$160k base compensation + meaningful equity in a fast-growing startup
• Full benefits package including premium healthcare and unlimited PTO
• Content creation budget for equipment, tools, and paid promotions
• Conference budget for speaking and networking opportunities
• Remote-friendly with optional NYC office access, but regular travel to events or company on-sites
• Direct impact — your work will directly influence our growth trajectory and shape how thousands of developers build applications

Who you’ll work with

We're a small team of 4: Alexander (previously founded Porter YC S20, multi cloud infrastructure) and Gabe (previously founded ClearMix YC S20, distributed remote video production), plus 2 founding engineers. We're obsessive about building the developer experience we've always wanted and believe that great DevRel is the key to showing developers what's possible.

We move fast and use what we ship. Everyone in the company shares in support, where we’re constantly improving the product based on feedback and relationships with our customers. If you're excited about showcasing how modern async job processing can power the next generation of AI applications, we'd love to hear from you.