Developer Relations Engineer

Hatchet is a distributed, fault-tolerant task queue designed to solve scaling problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting. Our mission is to provide developers with a simple, powerful, and reliable way to distribute and manage background tasks and workflows, enabling them to focus on building great applications. As multi-time YC founders and CTOs, we have felt the pains of managing complex background tasks and workflows ourselves. We have a transparent, collaborative, and fast-paced culture with a flat organizational structure. We’re engineers building for engineers. We work closely with our customers in slack to understand their needs and help them achieve their goals. We’re solving the hard infra and architecture problems that are as rewarding as they are thought provoking. Here’s an example of a problem we’ve recently drilled into: https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/multi-tenant-queues. 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.