Developer Relations Engineer
better-auth · San Francisco, USA ·
- Category
- Developer relations
- Experience
- 3+ years
About Better Auth
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 shipping everything from startup projects to enterprise products.
We’re a small team building foundational infrastructure that other developers depend on, so the bar is high: every decision we make affects security, correctness, and developer experience at scale. We’re also building an enterprise layer on top of the open-source framework for teams that need more operational, organizational, and compliance-oriented capabilities.
We’re now extending that work into agent auth: secure identity, approval, delegation, and capability grants for AI agents operating across runtimes, services, and organizations. That makes developer education especially important: we’re helping define new identity primitives that developers will need to understand, trust, and adopt.
The Role
You’ll be the first Developer Relations hire at Better Auth and help build the function from the ground up.
This role blends engineering depth, public presence, and community leadership. You won’t just relay developer feedback — you’ll understand it, debug it, and often help fix it yourself. You’ll guide developers across docs, examples, workshops, videos, community channels, and public content.
You’ll help define how developers experience Better Auth: how they learn it, how they adopt it, how they contribute to it, and how the broader ecosystem understands our work. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can teach clearly, build polished examples, engage publicly, and work closely with the engineering team to improve the product.
Why You Should Join
You’ll join Better Auth at an early stage with real ownership over one of the most important parts of the company: how developers understand, adopt, and talk about the product.
As the first DevRel hire, you’ll have wide creative freedom and deep influence across product, docs, content, community, and developer experience. You’ll shape how Better Auth shows up in the open-source ecosystem, how developers learn identity concepts, and how the community grows around the framework.
This is a role for someone who wants to move quickly, build in public, and help define how the fastest-growing auth framework shows up to developers.
What You'll Work On
- Developer education — creating clear docs, tutorials, guides, workshops, videos, and learning materials that help developers understand and adopt Better Auth
- Demos and reference apps — building polished examples, starter projects, and practical reference implementations using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and modern frameworks
- Community engagement — working closely with developers across GitHub, Discord, X, LinkedIn, events, and other community channels
- Public presence — representing Better Auth to developers through posts, talks, streams, meetups, hackathons, and ecosystem conversations
- Product feedback and DX — identifying friction in the developer journey, debugging issues, improving APIs, and contributing fixes or improvements alongside the engineering team
- Open-source ecosystem growth — highlighting contributors, supporting community projects, and helping grow the Better Auth plugin ecosystem
- Technical storytelling — turning complex authentication and identity concepts into clear, practical explanations that developers can apply immediately
- Brand and community voice — helping define how developers perceive Better Auth and how we communicate with the community
What We're Looking For
- Experience level — 3+ years in developer relations, developer experience engineering, developer education, or a similar technical community-facing role
- Engineering ability — you’re a strong developer who can build high-quality demos, debug real issues, and contribute meaningfully to a TypeScript codebase
- Communication — you write, speak, and explain technical ideas clearly across docs, posts, videos, talks, and code examples
- TypeScript and frontend familiarity — you’re comfortable building with TypeScript, React, Next.js, or other modern full-stack frameworks
- Public-facing comfort — you’re comfortable being active on platforms like X and LinkedIn and engaging with developers in public
- Teaching instinct — you enjoy simplifying complex technical ideas and helping developers learn through practical examples
- Community judgment — you know how to engage thoughtfully with users, contributors, and maintainers while representing the company well
- Developer experience taste — you care deeply about clarity, ergonomics, clean APIs, and making technical workflows feel intuitive
- Ownership — you can take an ambiguous DevRel function from zero to one and figure out what matters most without waiting for a playbook
Bonus Points
- Maintaining or contributing to open-source projects
- Working on authentication, identity, security, or developer infrastructure products
- Growing developer communities around open-source projects
- Creating technical videos, workshops, conference talks, or live coding content
- Building polished example apps, templates, or educational projects for developers
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity with room to grow
- Health, dental, vision
- Unlimited PTO (that we actually encourage you to use)
- SF office access + daily catered lunches & snacks
Better Auth is an equal opportunity employer. We believe diverse teams build better security infrastructure.