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About the Role

As the first Developer Relations hire at Better Auth, you will build the function from the ground up, blending engineering depth, public presence, and community leadership. You will guide developers through documentation, examples, workshops, and community channels, defining their experience with Better Auth from learning and adoption to contribution and ecosystem understanding. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can teach clearly, build polished examples, engage publicly, and collaborate closely with the engineering team.

Responsibilities

Create clear documentation, tutorials, guides, workshops, videos, and learning materials.
Build polished examples, starter projects, and practical reference implementations using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and modern frameworks.
Engage with developers across GitHub, Discord, X, LinkedIn, and events.
Represent Better Auth through posts, talks, streams, meetups, hackathons, and ecosystem conversations.
Identify friction in the developer journey, debug issues, improve APIs, and contribute fixes or improvements.
Highlight contributors, support community projects, and help grow the Better Auth plugin ecosystem.
Translate complex authentication and identity concepts into clear, practical explanations.
Help define how developers perceive Better Auth and how the company communicates with the community.

Requirements

3+ years in developer relations, developer experience engineering, developer education, or a similar technical community-facing role.
Strong development skills with the ability to build high-quality demos, debug issues, and contribute to a TypeScript codebase.
Clear communication skills for writing, speaking, and explaining technical ideas across various formats.
Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Next.js, or other modern full-stack frameworks.
Comfortable being active on platforms like X and LinkedIn and engaging with developers publicly.
Enjoyment in simplifying complex technical ideas and helping developers learn through practical examples.
Ability to engage thoughtfully with users, contributors, and maintainers while representing the company well.
A strong sense of care for clarity, ergonomics, clean APIs, and intuitive technical workflows.
Ability to take an ambiguous DevRel function from zero to one and identify priorities independently.

Skills

TypeScript
React
Next.js
Developer Relations
Developer Experience Engineering
Developer Education
Technical Community Engagement
Public Speaking
Technical Writing
Video Creation
Workshop Facilitation
Debugging
API Improvement
Open-Source Contribution
Authentication
Identity Management
Security
Developer Infrastructure
Community Growth
Technical Storytelling

Location

SF office access

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

3+ years

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary + meaningful equity with room to grow

Benefits

Health, dental, vision
Unlimited PTO (that we actually encourage you to use)
SF office access + daily catered lunches & snacks

About the Company

Better Auth is the most comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript.
We're the most upvoted YC Launch in history and are used by thousands of developers.
We are a small team building foundational infrastructure that other developers depend on.
We are extending our work into agent auth: secure identity, approval, delegation, and capability grants for AI agents.
We are defining new identity primitives for developers to understand, trust, and adopt.

Equal Opportunity

Better Auth is an equal opportunity employer.
We believe diverse teams build better security infrastructure.