Open Source Developer Advocate, Apache Iceberg, Open Source Strategy & MarketingAmazon.com Inc.
Job Summary
We are looking for an Open Source Developer Advocate to be AWSs presence in the Iceberg community: a credible, hands-on technical voice who earns trust through contribution and turns that trust into influence. You will be the two-way bridge, representing AWS to the Iceberg community while channeling community signal, ecosystem context, and customer needs back to our engineering, product, and marketing teams.
This is a role for someone who wants to build community standing that matters. Your work will lay the foundation for AWS engineers to participate more actively in the project and to be recognized as a genuine leader in one of the most important open source projects in modern data infrastructure.
Key job responsibilities
Represent AWS in the community. Be an active, opinionated participant in Iceberg community channels, mailing lists, and core specification discussions. Build the credibility and relationships needed to influence how the project evolves.
Build contributor credibility. Participate in the project, shepherd work through the community review process, and build toward committer and PMC recognition.
Create content and evangelize. Publish blogs, tutorials, and samples, and show up at the Iceberg Summit, meetups, and conferences with hands-on talks and workshops that demonstrate AWSs Iceberg leadership.
Amplify releases and milestones. Partner with engineering and DevRel to turn changelogs, spec progress, and feature launches (for example V3 support, multi-table transactions, and performant merge-on-read) into launch stories across community and social channels.
Grow ecosystem partnerships. Build collaborative relationships with friendly partners and vendors (for example Snowflake and Netflix) to proactively help move the project forward and to strengthen AWSs collective voice in governance.
Be the communitys voice inside AWS. Bring developer pain points, specification direction, and ecosystem opportunities into AWS roadmap conversations. Partner with product marketing to keep positioning grounded in how developers actually talk about Iceberg.
Set the strategy. Define community health and influence metrics (committers earned, PRs merged, specification working groups joined, community relationships built) and evolve the playbook as AWSs standing in the project grows.
About the team
About the Team
The Open Source Strategy and Marketing (OSSM) team includes veterans from top open source companies and foundations alongside passionate newcomers. We help AWS service teams effectively engage with open source communities, media, analysts, and customersincreasing the scope of our open source involvement and helping people understand why it matters.
How You'll Work
You'll own the community function for Kiro Crew: setting direction, bringing proposals, not waiting for assignments. You'll partner closely with engineering, product, and product marketing: leaning on them for technical depth and roadmap context, while bringing them community signal, ecosystem context, and amplification. You'll also coordinate with developer advocacy on events, content, and partner work.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
This is a role for someone who wants to build community standing that matters. Your work will lay the foundation for AWS engineers to participate more actively in the project and to be recognized as a genuine leader in one of the most important open source projects in modern data infrastructure.
Key job responsibilities
Represent AWS in the community. Be an active, opinionated participant in Iceberg community channels, mailing lists, and core specification discussions. Build the credibility and relationships needed to influence how the project evolves.
Build contributor credibility. Participate in the project, shepherd work through the community review process, and build toward committer and PMC recognition.
Create content and evangelize. Publish blogs, tutorials, and samples, and show up at the Iceberg Summit, meetups, and conferences with hands-on talks and workshops that demonstrate AWSs Iceberg leadership.
Amplify releases and milestones. Partner with engineering and DevRel to turn changelogs, spec progress, and feature launches (for example V3 support, multi-table transactions, and performant merge-on-read) into launch stories across community and social channels.
Grow ecosystem partnerships. Build collaborative relationships with friendly partners and vendors (for example Snowflake and Netflix) to proactively help move the project forward and to strengthen AWSs collective voice in governance.
Be the communitys voice inside AWS. Bring developer pain points, specification direction, and ecosystem opportunities into AWS roadmap conversations. Partner with product marketing to keep positioning grounded in how developers actually talk about Iceberg.
Set the strategy. Define community health and influence metrics (committers earned, PRs merged, specification working groups joined, community relationships built) and evolve the playbook as AWSs standing in the project grows.
About the team
About the Team
The Open Source Strategy and Marketing (OSSM) team includes veterans from top open source companies and foundations alongside passionate newcomers. We help AWS service teams effectively engage with open source communities, media, analysts, and customersincreasing the scope of our open source involvement and helping people understand why it matters.
How You'll Work
You'll own the community function for Kiro Crew: setting direction, bringing proposals, not waiting for assignments. You'll partner closely with engineering, product, and product marketing: leaning on them for technical depth and roadmap context, while bringing them community signal, ecosystem context, and amplification. You'll also coordinate with developer advocacy on events, content, and partner work.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.