Fly.io is building a new public cloud. We are a rapidly expanding mid-sized company that is primarily technical but we also have people ops, marketing and sales teams. We’re fully remote and hire folks all over the world. We’re building the product, the technology, and the company all at the same time - if you like making things and want your work to have a big impact, this is the place for you!
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Fly.io is building a new public cloud. We are a rapidly expanding mid-sized company that is primarily technical but we also have people ops, marketing and sales teams. We’re fully remote and hire folks all over the world. We’re building the product, the technology, and the company all at the same time - if you like making things and want your work to have a big impact, this is the place for you!
We’re Fly.io, and we’re building a new public cloud. We transmogrify containers into lightweight VMs and run them on our hardware around the world – hundreds of thousands of applications rely on us, running on every continent except Antarctica. If you haven’t already, take us for spin. Your app will be up and running in just minutes.
Everyone at Fly.io writes. We write a lot because we work asynchronously and writing things down is at the core of how we do that so effectively. But documentation, as Kurt is finally coming to appreciate, is its own special kind of writing.
We don’t make it easy to build documentation here, but we do make it interesting.
Fly.io has an idiosyncratic culture. We don’t do traditional product management. Our product engineering team is divided into many 2-4 person teams, each responsible for their own roadmap, and each chartered to independently build powerful cloud primitives, which our customers use in creative ways.
Our documentation site is practically the first place in our process where all these primitives come together to tell a story about how to ship new kinds of apps (along with all the beloved classics) on our platform. It’s an unusually visible and influential place in which to do technical writing, and we’re interested in talking to the kind of person who finds that opportunity appealing.
What you’ll be doing:
- Bridging between our users, the best and most interesting community of developers on the Internet, and our product engineering team (also the best and most interesting community of developers on the Internet) by problem-solving ways to showcase our work and make it comprehensible. You know, doc-writing stuff.
- Driving forward docs projects yourself: You’ll generally be self-directed, but you’ll also have VIP backstage access to Fly.io developers to ask lots of questions and get feedback on your work.
- Working directly with Fly.io product engineers to help them deliver strong documentation on their own, helping to develop a contribution culture.
- Working with Fly.io’s design team to win the ruthless competitive power-walking race between us and other big API companies to have the coolest looking and most useful API documentation.
- Helping to make flyctl (our CLI)
--help
even more helpful; flyctl is the primary way of interacting with the Fly.io platform for thousands of devs.
This role will be a good fit for you if:
- You’re curious about how things work, and know how to find out by asking good questions, doing research, and trying features out for yourself.
- You write excellent English in an informal style, and can organize information to create coherent documentation that includes all—and only—the relevant details for the user.
- Your approach to editing is collaborative and focused on imparting our style wisdom over time. You can prioritize changes and are flexible when applying style guidance. At the same time, you’re open to feedback on your own work.
- You can handle a project start to finish; you independently make good decisions about docs requirements.
- You have technical aptitude: you’re comfortable on the command line and can work in codebases to add docs for CLIs, APIs, and UIs.
- You’re hands-on and can learn about features by trial and error.
- You’re skilled at other kinds of writing, especially sharing ideas, progress, and problems with your colleagues.
You’ll know you’re succeeding in your job if:
- You’re demonstrating that you understand the problems devs face managing apps on a public cloud by creating lots of docs to share that knowledge.
- You’re also still learning new things about what people can do with Fly.io, and you’re excited to share those things with users every day.
- The Fly.io devs you work with know what’s needed to create complete docs, and are reaching out or creating docs PRs when docs need updating.
- Our Support team is fielding fewer questions about how to use us, and have a handy doc to point to when a customer does ask.
- You’re taking valuable information posted in our community forum about how the platform works, and patterns to use it, and turning it into docs.
Our workflow and tools
Our public writing—that’s docs and articles—is written in markdown and goes through Sitepress, a static site generator. We publish by merging a pull request in GitHub. Our docs are in a public GitHub repo, so you can snoop if you want!
We ask questions and have discussions on Discourse (we’re big on async communication), and work on drafts in Slab when we’re collaborating.
More details
This is a mid-level, fully-remote, full-time position.
To optimize for pay equity, Fly.io doesn’t negotiate salaries. We have standardized salaries for each employee level. The salary for this role is $134k USD. We offer competitive equity grants with a long exercise window. US employees get health care, everyone gets flexible vacation time (with a minimum), hardware/phone allowances, the standard stuff.
Our hiring process may be a little different from what you’re used to. We respect career experience but we aren’t hypnotized by it, and we’re thrilled at the prospect of discovering new talent. So instead of resumes and interviews, we’re going to show you the kind of work we’re doing and then see if you enjoy actually doing it, with “work-sample challenges”. Unlike a lot of places that assign “take-home problems”, our challenges are the backbone of our whole process; they’re not pre-screeners for an interview gauntlet. (We’re happy to talk, though!)
If you’re interested, mail jobs+devdocs@fly.io. You can tell us a bit about yourself, if you like. Please also include 1) your GitHub username, and 2) a sentence about a company you think has great developer documentation (so that we know you’re not a bot).
Fly.io is building a new public cloud. We are a rapidly expanding mid-sized company that is primarily technical but we also have people ops, marketing and sales teams. We’re fully remote and hire folks all over the world. We’re building the product, the technology, and the company all at the same time - if you like making things and want your work to have a big impact, this is the place for you!
We're building something ambitious at Fly.io: a new public cloud, running on our own hardware all over the world, built to make it easy to run apps close to users anywhere in the world.
So far, we've focused a lot on self-serve growth: developers (our users) can find us, sign up, and build things on their own. Now, we want to meet developers where they are, out in the world. We're looking for a Senior Field Marketing Manager to drive our presence in ecosystem events and Developer Relations.
This role combines event management, strategic planning, budget control, and audience engagement. You'll manage field marketing events from conception through execution, making sure that Fly.io is showing up in an impactful way that's aligned with who we are as a company. You'll need to provide calm leadership in high-pressure situations and make sure that events run smoothly, even when challenges (inevitably) occur.
If you’re a community builder, this role should feel magical. Fly.io's a group of really fun, genuine people, and we need you to help us reach more people like us. We don't want you to shill; we want you to gameplan how to create over-the-top fun for developers, and then engage with them—using beautiful swag, good conversation, and great food and drinks—so that they become evangelists.
This role will be a good fit for you if:
- You've done field marketing, event management, or something similar. (We want you to be able to show us the ropes on Day One.)
- You're super organized (no details gets past you) and great at project management.
- You can translate Fly.io's company goals into marketing strategies that resonate with technical audiences.
- You like managing a budget, and know how to get the most "bang for your buck" when it comes to event planning.
- You like to travel. We want to show up in person, all over the US and EU.
- You're good at remaining poised and effective under stress. You can manage a crisis without disrupting an event or letting the audience know there's an issue.
- You're good at managing expectations and pushing back when necessary. We need to keep initiatives on-brand and within budget, even when our internal stakeholders get excited.
- You find it easy to build and sustain relationships, in any medium: in person, over Slack, over email, etc. Do folks call you a "people person?" If so, let's talk.
You'll know you're succeeding in your job if:
- Fly.io’s culture and public persona is consistent across all our field marketing activities.
- You're managing the field marketing budget so well that we're getting far more valuable events than we thought were possible out of it.
- Your field marketing strategy is enhancing Fly.io’s visibility and engagement within the developer community.
- You're planning and managing all aspects of our events, including logistics, vendor relationships, and on-site coordination.
- You've built strong relationships with internal stakeholders, our ecosystem partners, and the broader developer community.
More Details
This is a senior level, full-time salaried position. You can live anywhere in the US or EU. In order to optimize for pay equity, Fly.io doesn't negotiate salaries. We have standardized salaries for each employee level. The salary for this role is $190k USD. We offer competitive equity grants with a long exercise window. US employees get health care, everyone gets flexible vacation time (with a minimum), hardware/phone allowances, the standard stuff.
If you’re interested, mail jobs+field-marketer@fly.io. You can tell us a bit about yourself, if you like. Please also include 1. your location and 2. your favorite industry euphemism for “customer”, so we know you’re not a bot.
Fly.io is building a new public cloud. We are a rapidly expanding mid-sized company that is primarily technical but we also have people ops, marketing and sales teams. We’re fully remote and hire folks all over the world. We’re building the product, the technology, and the company all at the same time - if you like making things and want your work to have a big impact, this is the place for you!
We’re Fly.io, and we’re building a new public cloud. We transmogrify containers into lightweight VMs and run them on our hardware around the world – hundreds of thousands of applications rely on us, running on every continent except Antarctica. If you haven’t already, take us for spin. Your app will be up and running in just minutes.
Unlike all the rest of our roles, these roles are geographically specific; DevRel here is in large part about engaging local communities and going to in-person events. We’re currently hiring DevRel people who can travel and work full time in North America. Of course, our whole thing is that we deploy everywhere else in the world, too, so we’ll be expanding from there soon.
There are a lot DevRel jobs where you have to make your own fun, because the product is about eliminating some gnarly business slog like inventory management or expense tracking or underwriting. We’re not knocking those jobs! There’s nobility in eliminating slogs!
But this isn’t one of those jobs. We’re doing something big, something that’s about software development itself. We’re one of a number of upstart companies rethinking the public cloud, breaking down infrastructure problems that used to take months of work and dedicated headcount into a platform that our users can gain fluency with in a matter of minutes. If you’re our kind of developer, the fun in this job is built-in.
We’re looking for people who are passionate about JavaScript. On the client, on the server, or even on the microcontroller. Whatever framework you like: we support you, even though we still don’t understand how you can know what `this` is.
Folks working in DevRel at Fly.io interact with three different groups of people:
- Group A: our product teams, like in every other devrel job: the people building the platform and its features.
- Group B: our “framework” teams, which are a fun quirk of Fly.io: these are small teams of people organized around individual application frameworks like Rails, Django, Phoenix, and whatever people are doing in Javascript these days.
- Group H: the “developer community”, a term the industry uses because it is apparently squicked out by the word “customer”.
As a DevRel engineer here, your whole deal would be connecting the groups, per this schematic diagram:
You’ll accomplish this by deploying all of your “skills of an artist”, hopefully including things like:
- Quickly building proof-of-concept applications that show off cool things about Fly.io, like how quickly you can start up a new VM, or the timeless elegance of our IPv6 addressing.
- Building and delivering presentations for events, presentations that have the net effect of customers (err, the developer community) liking us more. Also, having the good taste to do this in ways that are interesting even to people who might never deploy an app on Fly.io.
- Talking to people working on all kinds of applications, from side projects to large teams building microservice ensembles, and talking them through making the best use of Fly.io, the Fly Machines API, our integrations with products like Supabase, that sort of stuff.
- Maintaining a public presence in online communities where developers congregate, and somehow doing all of this while maintaining your own authenticity and credibility. We’ll help!
- 25% monthly travel (focusing on small local meetups to medium sized conferences) to hang with developer communities in person to build authentic developer interest in various regions and communities.
This Role Is A Good Fit For You If:
- You enjoy building applications and are particularly psyched about the prototyping phase of building things, because there’s going to be a lot of that here.
- The idea of a little bit of chaos appeals to you, because it’s a sign to you that there’s an opportunity to help define a new practice and make some big moves.
- You’re opinionated enough to be interesting, but exceptionally good at listening, empathizing, and rolling with the opinions of our users. That’s a hard tradeoff and not a lot of us here can do it!
- Your career goals involve increasing your public profile. We punch above our weight in getting attention from developers, and your job here would be part of building and expanding on that.
- Going to a bunch of different developer events sounds like a good time to you. We are focused on in-person events as our strategy.
You’ll Know You’re Succeeding If:
- The numbers are going up and to the right (or you’ve built a time machine and can make the numbers go left).
- More JavaScript apps are launched on Fly.io.
- You’re involved in helping systematize our content development past blog posts and documentation and into a library of different kinds of content to connect with people at different phases of their use of the product, and you’re seeing results.
- You’re comfortable with how Fly.io intersects with all the major app frameworks and can effectively talk people through solving problems, and when you do that, the result is that people are excited to use us.
More Details
This is a fully-remote, full-time position.
In order to optimize for pay equity, Fly.io doesn’t negotiate salaries. We have standardized salaries for each employee level. The salary for this role is, depending on level, $134k or $190k USD. We offer competitive equity grants with a long exercise window. US employees get health care, everyone gets flexible vacation time (with a minimum), hardware/phone allowances, the standard stuff.
Our hiring process may be a little different from what you’re used to. We respect career experience but we aren’t hypnotized by it, and we’re thrilled at the prospect of discovering new talent. So instead of resumes and interviews, we’re going to show you the kind of work we’re doing and then see if you enjoy actually doing it, with “work-sample challenges”. Unlike a lot of places that assign “take-home problems”, our challenges are the backbone of our whole process; they’re not pre-screeners for an interview gauntlet. (We’re happy to talk, though!)
If you’re interested, mail jobs+devreldotjs@fly.io. You can tell us a bit about yourself, if you like. Please also include 1. your location, 2. your GitHub username, and 3. your favorite industry euphemism for “customer”, so we know you’re not a bot.
Be the owner of your days
Rise to any challenge
Brighten the lives of those around you
Let your unique self shine through
Pursue Deliberate Simplicity
Let Curiosity Lead
Own Your Part
Act then adapt
Defy the Ordinary
Go Further Together
Same team
Progress over perfection
Give a shit
Innovation
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Excellence
Excellence t
Agility
Integrity
We care about each other
We maintain a healthy work-life balance and we always take care of one another.
We're nimble
We're proud to wear many hats and do whatever it takes to get things done. We don't shrug our shoulders or shy away from doing something because it's not part of our job descriptions.
We listen
People First
Maximize Efficiency
Make Your Mark
Ownership
Always share whether we succeed or fail
Make the impact worth the effort
Represent the real world
Make it measurable
Be an owner
Embrace Mistakes
Be Hypothesis-Driven
Practice Self-Reflection
Be Curious
Service
Win together
Bring your best
Embrace the pace
Don't be an asshole | Be a good human
Focus on the customer
Transparency
Inclusion
Responsibility
Gratitude
Inclusion & Diversity
Cultivate empowerment and ownership
Community & Open Collaboration
Think Big & Dive Deep
Curiosity & Rigorous Thought
Committed to Our Purpose: A Future for Everybody.
Inclusion & Diversity
Cultivate empowerment and ownership
Community & Open Collaboration
Think Big & Dive Deep
Curiosity & Rigorous Thought
Committed to Our Purpose: A Future for Everybody.
We believe in the importance of 'Getting Sh!t Done'
We believe In learning and the power of “yet”
We believe starting from first principles gives us the courage to think differently.
We believe being human means recognizing the humanity in ourselves and others.
We believe businesses don’t have problems, people do.
Be Boomi
We show up for each other with empathy, compassion and purpose.
We strive to integrate a more diverse voice for a stronger and smarter team.
We win as One Boomi.
Be You
We lead with integrity.
We bring our whole, unique and authentic selves to our work and relationships with ourselves, our customers, our partners and our communities.
Be Bold
We commit to continuously being better.
We strive to exceed our customers, partners and community's expectations.
Our curiosity drives us to do better.
We are inspired by yesterday, but create for tomorrow.
Direct & transparent
Win together
High agency
Dev love
Ownership
Everyone is an owner at Starburst and has the autonomy to make a significant impact on where we are today and where we are going. Regardless of the role you perform here, we want drivers. If you see something that can be improved, don’t wait for someone else to improve it. Every employee has equity and this is truly your company – and ours.
Competence
As individuals, we are constantly striving to master our craft and give our best as we get things done. While individual contributions are recognized and rewarded, we also work to build an inclusive meritocracy across the entire organization where accountability is key. High performance at Starburst is both an individual and team sport.
Character
As a team, humility, grit, and authenticity are at the core of who we are. As individuals, we care more about what’s best for our company and customers over being right. We also recognize that startups have ups and downs and when we inevitably face hard times, our perseverance helps us stay the course and work harder. Through it all, we are authentic in everything we do and always operate with honesty.
Support
Insight
Drive
Authenticity
Inspire Authenticity
Always Be Designing
Service to Others, Urgently
Navigate Ambiguity with Data
One Team, Same Dream
Be An Owner
Execution Excellence
Forward Thinking
Integrity
Teamwork
We create solutions
We roll up our sleeves
We put the team and the homeowner first
We create solutions
We collaborate with trust
We execute...with intention
We communicate directly & constructively
Pragmatism
Engineers are empowered to solve problems rather than assigned tasks.
Speed
Professional Growth
One of the worst things about working at a startup is that everyone can do many things.
Everyone on the team is an expert at something(s). When working at a startup it is important for us all to recognize that everyone who is working with us is here to be more.