Developer Experience Engineer

Our Developer Relations team sits at the center of how developers experience Descope. From first integration to production rollout, DevRel works closely with the community to ensure developers can successfully adopt, implement, and scale authentication using Descope.

This is an engineer first role. You will work hands on with developers, build real integrations, create technical content, and influence product direction based on direct feedback from the field.

What You’ll Do

• Engage with developers to understand their use cases, challenges, and goals, and provide hands on technical guidance throughout the integration journey
• Lead implementation efforts and POCs, helping customers design, deploy, and troubleshoot Descope within their applications
• Partner with Product and Engineering to translate community feedback into actionable product improvements
• Create high quality technical content including documentation, guides, sample apps, videos, and demos
• Contribute to open source projects and build integrations across different platforms and frameworks
• Plan and deliver developer focused events such as workshops, webinars, hackathons, and conference talks
• Manage and engage across developer communication channels including Slack, forums, and public communities
• Support product launches by enabling the developer community with clear, practical, and usable resources

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in Developer Relations, Solutions Engineering, Developer Experience Engineer or a similar customer facing technical role
• Strong software engineering background with hands on coding experience
• Proficiency in one or more languages such as JavaScript, Python, or Go
• Experience working directly with developers on integrations, implementations, or technical onboarding
• Solid understanding of authentication and authorization concepts including modern AuthN and AuthZ approaches
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly to different audiences
• Experience building technical content such as documentation, demos, or tutorials
• Comfortable working cross functionally with Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams

Nice to Have

• Experience with developer communities, forums, or open source contributions
• Background in identity, security, or authentication platforms
• Experience speaking at conferences or running technical events

The Descope CIAM platform helps organizations easily create and customize their entire user journeys (authentication, authorization, MFA, identity management) using no / low code workflows. Thousands of developers and hundreds of organizations use Descope to improve user onboarding and retention with passwordless authentication, enhance security with MFA and step-up authentication, and unify identities across customer-facing apps.

Descope has raised $53M in seed funding led by Lightspeed and GGV Capital, with participation from several other investors and notable individual investors such as George Kurtz (CEO, CrowdStrike), Bipul Sinha (CEO, Rubrik), John Thompson (Board Director, Microsoft), and Assaf Rappaport (CEO, Wiz).

Descope is founded by a team of highly technical, customer-centric engineers who have created multiple category-defining companies in the past. Most recently, this team created Demisto, a leader in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) space that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $560M. The Descope founders share their vision in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5iLbIwQBmw

Founded in 2022, Descope has offices in Los Altos, CA and Tel Aviv, Israel. Since launching from stealth, Descope has been named in the inaugural Redpoint InfraRed 100, a list of the next 100 promising private companies in Cloud Infrastructure.