Job description
Description
About the Role
We’re hiring a Developer Relations Intern to help grow and engage Soda’s technical community. You’ll work closely with the founding team, engineering, and growth to build open-source projects, create high-quality content, and be an active presence in the data and observability ecosystem. Your work will make it easier for data and ML engineers to adopt Soda, learn from community use cases, and contribute back. This role is a mix of coding, writing, advocacy, and community-building. If successful, we expect you to grow into a full-time DevRel, Developer Advocate, or Technical Product role.
This week is Soda’s first Launch Week. We are launching new features every single day this week. To standout for this internship, contribute meaningfully to launch week, we will notice. Learn more at launch.soda.io
Responsibilities
You’ll be hands-on across DevRel and community activities, including:
Build open-source projects and example repos that showcase Soda’s products
Write clear, technically accurate content:
Tutorials, guides, walkthroughs, engineering blog posts
Integration how-tos and community success stories
Speak with users and help them solve technical problems
Answer questions in Slack, GitHub, and forums
Triage issues, gather feedback, and bring it back to the team
Present in community calls, webinars, and conferences
Collaborate with product and engineering to improve the developer experience
Help grow and nurture our open-source contributor base
About Soda
Soda helps customers detect, resolve, and prevent data quality issues by combining automated post-production monitoring with pre-production pipeline data testing. We enable Data Engineers to effectively own DQ by “shifting left” the data quality initiatives from business to engineering.
Soda was founded in 2019 by Maarten, an employee #5 in Collibra, where he worked in Go-To-Market leadership, and Tom, who launched multiple OSS projects that generated 100s Million in value. Together, they built a tool that ensures data quality across Data Engineering, Data Governance, and business use cases.
Soda’s product offering consists of an open-source project called Soda Core, which is used by companies like Tesla, Slack, Adyen, Walmart, and JPMC. Soda commercializes its software through the Soda Cloud product. We’re well-funded, with investors like Point 9 Capital, Hummingbird, Singular, and Eurazeo.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the Data Quality software used by Data Engineers for the decades to come.
Our Values
We value freedom with responsibility, transparency, and a growth mindset. We dislike politics and bullshit and value open and direct communication without judgment. We proactively bring up and address potential issues before they become critical and overcommunicate frequently. Working at Soda, you will have full autonomy to make impactful product and roadmap decisions and prioritize and organize your work how you see fit.
❤ Why you will love to join Soda
Working with a fast-growing international VC-funded startup with a flat structure
You will have full ownership of the things you work on
An international and diverse team
Fully remote, flexible work, with as many opportunities to meet up as you want!
Open Source Product with all the perks that come with that
😡 What you might not love
Fast-paced environment with a LOT of work to be done
You will have to learn new things all the time
Requirements
Requirements
You’ve built and shipped real code—either projects, scripts, or tools you can show
Strong technical communication skills, written and verbal
You’re comfortable writing Python, and working with CLI tools, APIs, GitHub, and data workflows
Curious, self-directed, and confident learning in public
You thrive in community spaces and know how to engage people without fluff
You’re comfortable being on camera and giving live demos or screencasts
Available to start in November
Based in or willing to relocate to a European time zone, with occasional travel (~1x/quarter)
Nice to haves
Prior experience contributing to open-source projects
Knowledge of modern data stack tools (e.g. dbt, Airflow, Spark, Snowflake)
Familiarity with the observability or MLOps space
Experience in startups or fast-paced environments
You’ve published content (personal blog, newsletter, YouTube, Dev.to, etc)
This is not a passive internship. You’ll be expected to operate like a core part of the growth team.
