Job Title: Senior Developer Relations (DevRel)

Location: Remote/Hybrid

Company: ControlTheory

About Us:

ControlTheory is reinventing observability—making it smarter, more controlled, and AI-first. We tackle the pains faced by modern SREs—rising MTTR, exploding costs, vendor lock-in, siloed insights, and unanswered questions around root cause, service health, and capacity. As the creators of Gonzo, an open-source, real-time log analysis TUI, ControlTheory is committed to developing open standards such as OpenTelemetry and supporting the CNCF community.

ControlTheory AI-First observability distills telemetry down to the essential answers SREs require, concentrating the signal, not the noise. Backed by $5 million in seed funding from Silverton Partners, ControlTheory enables organizations to move observability into the AI era by applying agentic intelligence across the full observability supply chain.

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Senior Developer Relations Engineer to bring our message to the cloud native, Kubernetes, and SRE communities and help build up the ControlTheory community. You’ll champion AI-first, smarter observability, show how it cuts noise, reduces toil, and delivers actionable intelligence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evangelize the AI-first Observability Vision
  • Clearly articulate how observability is being reinvented through intelligent automation and AI-driven insight.
  • Highlight real-world value: instant, contextual, noise-free incident workflows—without dashboards, manual tuning, or complex queries.
• Create Developer-Ready Content
  • Author tutorials, reference guides, sample applications, and demos emphasizing streamlined observability workflows—especially for Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry users.
  • Showcase pain points (high MTTR, cost inefficiency, opaque system health), and explain how ControlTheory resolves them.
• Community Engagement & Presence
  • Speak at industry events (KubeCon, KCDs, OpenTelemetry/Observability meetups, CNCF events), focusing on AI-first observability transformations.
  • Facilitate workshops or webinars that demonstrate increased efficiency and clarity—no overhead, just insight.
  • Act as the authentic voice of ControlTheory to the developer community across social channels.
• Own, Maintain, Promote ControlTheory Open Source Projects
  • Act as a maintainer and community lead for Gonzo, our open-source real-time log analysis tool, plus additional future tools.
  • Guide contributors, manage issues/PRs, write documentation, and foster a healthy open-source community around the project.
  • Coordinate release cycles, community feedback, and roadmap alignment with internal engineering teams.
• Build DevRel Programs
  • Launch ambassador initiatives, hands-on hackathons, or “observe smarter” challenges that emphasize how AI-native observability counters traditional deficits.
  • Partner with product & marketing teams to integrate developer feedback into future capabilities and messaging.
• Measure Impact & Iterate
  • Define success metrics—community engagement, content performance, developer sentiment, and spoken vs. unspoken pain points.
  • Sharpen messaging and programming based on feedback and behavioral data.

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