Kong Inc.
Developer Advocate - Volcano at Kong Inc.
$200,000–$245,000 / year
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- Company
- Kong Inc.
- Location
- Remote, United States
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Compensation
- $200,000–$245,000 / year
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Role overview
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Kong Inc. is hiring a full-time Developer Advocate for Volcano, a remote role open in the United States with annual compensation of $200,000–$245,000. Volcano is a cloud for applications built with coding agents: developers can use tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex to set up databases, authentication, functions, storage, realtime features, and deployment. The product was designed around agents rather than adding agent support to a platform built for dashboard use.
Role at a glance: Remote U.S. Developer Advocate role at Kong Inc. for Volcano, paying $200,000–$245,000 per year.
Responsibilities mentioned in the listing
- Create and maintain the Volcano Cookbook, with practical app recipes, code, design choices, and troubleshooting notes.
- Build templates and examples that users can deploy in one step.
- Create video content, including YouTube videos, livestreams, and short demos.
- Organize Volcano hackathons, participate in other hackathons, and assess sponsorship opportunities.
- Develop co-created content with companies whose tools feature in Volcano recipes.
- Engage with developers on Discord, X, and GitHub, and share their feedback with the product team.
- Develop tools and workflows that help a small team publish more content without reducing quality.
Qualifications stated in the listing
- Have built and publicly shared work within the past year, and be able to show what you shipped and how you promoted it.
- Have experience taking something from zero to one, such as founding a company, joining an early-stage company, or launching a new project.
- Be technically capable with coding agents: able to build and debug a working app using Claude Code or a similar tool, and explain how it works. Database or infrastructure expertise is not required.
- Write well, use AI in your own workflow, and recognize when AI-generated writing is poor quality.
- Enjoy explaining technical ideas to an audience, on camera, or in online discussions, including skeptical ones.
- Earn engineers' trust in your technical accuracy.
- Additional experience that is a plus: an existing developer audience, organizing hackathons, or using developer platforms such as Vercel, Supabase, Neon, or Cloudflare.
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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.
