The Role
First DevRel hire responsible for developer education, polished demos, community engagement, public representation, and improving developer experience. Build docs, tutorials, reference apps (TypeScript/React/Next.js), run workshops and events, diagnose and fix developer issues, and grow the open-source ecosystem and community.
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About Better Auth
The Role
Why You Should Join
What You'll Work On
What We're Looking For
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Compensation & Benefits
Better Auth is the most comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript. We're the most upvoted YC Launch in history and are used by thousands of developers shipping everything from startup projects to enterprise products.
We’re a small team building foundational infrastructure that other developers depend on, so the bar is high: every decision we make affects security, correctness, and developer experience at scale. We’re also building an enterprise layer on top of the open-source framework for teams that need more operational, organizational, and compliance-oriented capabilities.
We’re now extending that work into agent auth: secure identity, approval, delegation, and capability grants for AI agents operating across runtimes, services, and organizations. That makes developer education especially important: we’re helping define new identity primitives that developers will need to understand, trust, and adopt.
You’ll be the first Developer Relations hire at Better Auth and help build the function from the ground up.
This role blends engineering depth, public presence, and community leadership. You won’t just relay developer feedback — you’ll understand it, debug it, and often help fix it yourself. You’ll guide developers across docs, examples, workshops, videos, community channels, and public content.
You’ll help define how developers experience Better Auth: how they learn it, how they adopt it, how they contribute to it, and how the broader ecosystem understands our work. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can teach clearly, build polished examples, engage publicly, and work closely with the engineering team to improve the product.
You’ll join Better Auth at an early stage with real ownership over one of the most important parts of the company: how developers understand, adopt, and talk about the product.
As the first DevRel hire, you’ll have wide creative freedom and deep influence across product, docs, content, community, and developer experience. You’ll shape how Better Auth shows up in the open-source ecosystem, how developers learn identity concepts, and how the community grows around the framework.
This is a role for someone who wants to move quickly, build in public, and help define how the fastest-growing auth framework shows up to developers.
- Developer education — creating clear docs, tutorials, guides, workshops, videos, and learning materials that help developers understand and adopt Better Auth
- Demos and reference apps — building polished examples, starter projects, and practical reference implementations using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and modern frameworks
- Community engagement — working closely with developers across GitHub, Discord, X, LinkedIn, events, and other community channels
- Public presence — representing Better Auth to developers through posts, talks, streams, meetups, hackathons, and ecosystem conversations
- Product feedback and DX — identifying friction in the developer journey, debugging issues, improving APIs, and contributing fixes or improvements alongside the engineering team
- Open-source ecosystem growth — highlighting contributors, supporting community projects, and helping grow the Better Auth plugin ecosystem
- Technical storytelling — turning complex authentication and identity concepts into clear, practical explanations that developers can apply immediately
- Brand and community voice — helping define how developers perceive Better Auth and how we communicate with the community
- Experience level — 3+ years in developer relations, developer experience engineering, developer education, or a similar technical community-facing role
- Engineering ability — you’re a strong developer who can build high-quality demos, debug real issues, and contribute meaningfully to a TypeScript codebase
- Communication — you write, speak, and explain technical ideas clearly across docs, posts, videos, talks, and code examples
- TypeScript and frontend familiarity — you’re comfortable building with TypeScript, React, Next.js, or other modern full-stack frameworks
- Public-facing comfort — you’re comfortable being active on platforms like X and LinkedIn and engaging with developers in public
- Teaching instinct — you enjoy simplifying complex technical ideas and helping developers learn through practical examples
- Community judgment — you know how to engage thoughtfully with users, contributors, and maintainers while representing the company well
- Developer experience taste — you care deeply about clarity, ergonomics, clean APIs, and making technical workflows feel intuitive
- Ownership — you can take an ambiguous DevRel function from zero to one and figure out what matters most without waiting for a playbook
- Maintaining or contributing to open-source projects
- Working on authentication, identity, security, or developer infrastructure products
- Growing developer communities around open-source projects
- Creating technical videos, workshops, conference talks, or live coding content
- Building polished example apps, templates, or educational projects for developers
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity with room to grow
- Health, dental, vision
- Unlimited PTO (that we actually encourage you to use)
- SF office access + daily catered lunches & snacks
Better Auth is an equal opportunity employer. We believe diverse teams build better security infrastructure.
Skills Required
- 3+ years in developer relations, developer experience engineering, developer education, or similar technical community-facing role
- Strong engineering ability to build demos, debug issues, and contribute to a TypeScript codebase
- Excellent written and verbal communication for docs, posts, videos, talks, and code examples
- Proficiency with TypeScript and familiarity with frontend/full-stack frameworks (React, Next.js)
- Comfortable public-facing presence on platforms (e.g., X, LinkedIn) and engaging with developer communities
- Ability to teach complex technical concepts and produce clear educational materials
- Good community judgment when interacting with users, contributors, and maintainers
- Strong developer experience taste for clarity, ergonomics, and API design
- Ownership mentality to build the DevRel function from zero to one
- Maintaining or contributing to open-source projects
- Experience with authentication, identity, security, or developer infrastructure
- Experience creating technical videos, workshops, talks, or building polished example apps
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The Company
What We Do
Better Auth is a framework-agnostic, comprehensive authentication and authorization framework for TypeScript. It provides developers with tools to manage user authentication, offering features like email/password, social sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and session management, designed to scale from small projects to enterprise applications.
