Developer Relations

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Database • Analytics
The Role
Build reference apps, quickstarts, and benchmarks for LLM retrieval and GraphRAG workflows; create technical content, run evaluations, teach publicly, engage developer communities, and feed prioritized product feedback into the roadmap.
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Developer Relations 

About ArangoDB

Arango makes your business data AI-ready, giving agents, apps, and assistants trusted context at scale. Every answer is traceable. Every decision is governed. No more stitching together a vector store, a graph database, a search index, and a governance layer added as an afterthought. Arango’s Contextual Data Platform has it all built in, not bolted on.

Trusted by organizations including NVIDIA, HPE, Zscaler, the London Stock Exchange, the U.S. Air Force, NIH, Siemens, and Articul8, Arango helps enterprises move from AI pilots to reliable production systems faster while lowering infrastructure complexity and total cost of ownership. Arango is a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program.

Stop building Frankenstacks. Start building with Arango. Learn more at arango.ai

We believe great innovation happens when curious, driven people collaborate. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and supporting our employees and interns as they learn, grow, and contribute to shaping the future of enterprise AI.

Location

Remote - United States preferably Bay Area location

About the Role

Step into Arango’s first dedicated developer advocacy role, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer.

Our foundation powers two breakthroughs: AutoGraph instantly builds knowledge graphs from enterprise documents, no manual ontology design required. AutoRAG dynamically selects the optimal retrieval method (GraphRAG, VectorRAG, or hybrid) for every query. Both integrate seamlessly with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and MCP to amplify, not replace, existing tools.

Your mission: enable developers to go from install to a working GraphRAG app on their own data in under 30 minutes, and to publicly demonstrate that your solution outperforms DIY alternatives.

You’ll shape and build Arango’s developer community, content, and event presence from scratch—defining what developer relations means here. Reporting into product (not marketing) ensures that your feedback directly shapes our roadmap, and your time is spent in the codebase, docs, and issue tracker.

Key Responsibilities

Build things developers want to copy. Create reference applications, quickstarts, and sample repositories that solve real, end-to-end problems—from multi-hop question answering over document corpora, to agents that traverse entity relationships where vector search falls short, to integrations developers can easily adopt in their projects.

Publish honest benchmarks. Acknowledge where GraphRAG excels—and where vanilla RAG outperforms it—reflecting the published literature. Run standard evaluation harnesses (like GraphRAG-Bench), publish wins, and be transparent about limitations.

Teach in public through technical posts, talks, workshops, and live builds. Prioritize depth over volume.

Engage where AI engineers already are. GraphRAG and knowledge-graph communities, AI engineering meetups, framework ecosystems, and relevant conferences—both online and in person.

Close the loop to product. Serve as the critical link between developers and our product team, delivering specific, prioritized feedback—not just general sentiment.

Skills and Experience Required
  • You are an engineer. Title aside, what matters is your ability to build and debug real, non-trivial applications.
  • You have hands-on, production experience with LLM applications and retrieval: RAG pipelines, embeddings, chunking strategies, and evaluation. You recognize that retrieval quality issues go deeper.
  • Strong Python skills, plus proficiency in at least one of TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or Java.
  • You’ve written technical content that developers actually finished, and you can point us to examples.
  • You can own a room: giving talks, running workshops, or live-coding, and handle tough questions with confidence.
  • You’re comfortable with Docker and Kubernetes deployments.

Strongly preferred

  • Experience with graph databases, knowledge graphs, or GraphRAG. If you’ve built a knowledge graph by hand, you know why AutoGraph matters.
  • Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP, or similar orchestration frameworks.
  • You’ve run evaluation harnesses in real-world scenarios and have informed opinions about LLM-as-judge approaches.
  • Prior experience as an early or founding developer relations hire at an infrastructure or developer tools company.
  • Preferred Experience building agents at scale and for large enterprises
What Success Looks Like
  • Developers adopt and build on our reference applications and architectural blueprints.
  • A higher percentage of trial users reach a working application.
  • The roadmap shifts based on your insights from real developer feedback.
What Makes Arango Special?

At Arango, we believe that AI is only as powerful as the data foundation. Our mission is to help organizations build AI systems that can reason, decide and act based on unified, current, and trusted business context at scale. We are helping define a new category of infrastructure: the contextual data layer for AI.

Working at Arango means:

  • Contributing to cutting-edge AI and data infrastructure
  • Collaborating with experienced engineers, marketers, and product leaders
  • Helping shape how enterprises build AI-powered applications

If you're excited about the intersection of AI, data, and social media, we’d love to hear from you.


 

Skills Required

  • Ability to build and debug real, non-trivial applications
  • Hands-on, production experience with LLM applications and retrieval (RAG pipelines, embeddings, chunking, evaluation)
  • Strong Python skills
  • Proficiency in at least one of TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, or Java
  • Experience writing technical content with examples/links to published work
  • Public speaking: talks, workshops, or live-coding and handling Q&A
  • Comfortable with Docker and Kubernetes deployments
  • Experience with graph databases, knowledge graphs, or GraphRAG
  • Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP, or similar orchestration frameworks
  • Experience running evaluation harnesses and designing benchmarks
  • Prior experience as an early or founding developer relations hire at an infrastructure or developer tools company
  • Experience building agents at scale for large enterprises
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
110 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

ArangoDB is the most scalable open-source graph database, with more than 12,000 stargazers on GitHub. Building on the concept of ‘graph and beyond’, ArangoDB combines the analytical power of graphs with JSON documents, a key-value store, and a full-text search engine, enabling developers to access and combine all of these data models with a single, elegant, declarative query language. It serves as the scalable backbone for graph analytics and complex data architectures across many industries. Founded in 2015, ArangoDB Inc. is a privately-held company backed by Bow Capital, Iris Capital, New Forge, and Target Partners. It is headquartered in San Francisco and Cologne, Germany, with offices and employees around the world. Learn more at www.arangodb.com.

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