Developer Advocate - Volcano
This is the employer's own posting, not a copy on a job board.
What we know
Is it still open?
Confirmed still open
Last checked 2d ago — checked against the employer's own applicant tracking system, which is the company answering directly.
We re-read the employer's own applicant tracking system and the posting was still there. That is the company answering directly.
How old is it?
Posted 48d ago
The date the source published, not the day we noticed it (2026-09-14). Last seen at its source just now.
We have tracked this listing since 14 Sep 2026 (48 days). The employer's board dropped it once and re-listed it; it was last seen there just now.
Is it remote?
Marked remote on the employer's board
Their board carries a remote setting on this posting — a field they filled in, not wording we read. The location field names somewhere specific, which is usually where the team or the entity sits.
Who may apply?
United States
The description states no restriction of its own. This is the source's own tag.
Pay
$165k–185k/yr
Published by the source in its own salary field. Shown in the posting's own currency and period; we never convert.
Skills named in the ad
Recognised terms only, from a fixed vocabulary — this is what CV matching compares against.
Carried by 1 source
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Ashby employer's own board first seen 48d ago · last seen just now
- posted 2026-10-20
- salary $200k–245k/yr
The listing
Are you ready to unlock intelligence?
If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the Role:
Volcano (volcano.dev) is a cloud for apps built with coding agents. You tell Claude Code, Cursor or Codex what you want, and it sets up the database, auth, functions, storage, realtime and deploys on Volcano without a trip through a dashboard. Most platforms were designed around a person in a console and added agent support later. We started from the agent.
We're a small team and launched publicly in September 2026. Volcano is incubated by Kong and runs as its own company with its own brand.
This role sits between engineering and the developers we build for. You'll build on Volcano constantly, show people what it can do, and bring back what you learn so the product gets better.
What You'll Do:
Own the Volcano Cookbook: recipes that build real apps on Volcano with tools developers already use, written up with the code, the decisions and the gotchas.
Build templates and examples people can deploy in one step.
Make video, including YouTube, streams and short demos.
Run Volcano hackathons, show up at others, and decide which sponsorships are worth doing.
Work with the companies whose tools appear in our recipes on joint content.
Spend time where developers ask questions, in Discord, on X and on GitHub, and bring what you hear back to the team.
Build the tooling and workflows that let a small team publish more without the quality slipping.
Be customer zero. You'll hit rough edges before users do, and engineers should be able to act on your reports.
Who You'll Bring:
You've built things in public in the last year and can show us what you shipped and how you told people about it.
You've done 0-to-1 work: started a company, joined one early, or launched something from nothing.
You're technical and fluent with coding agents. You don't need to be a database or infrastructure expert, but you can build a working app with Claude Code or similar, debug it when it breaks, and explain what happened.
You write well. You use AI in your own workflow, and you can tell when output reads like slop.
You like explaining things, whether to a room, a camera or a thread of skeptical replies.
Engineers trust you on technical accuracy.
Bonus Points:
An existing developer audience
Hackathon organizing experience
Experience with developer platforms like Vercel, Supabase, Neon or Cloudflare.
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About Kong:
Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.