Developer Advocate; DevRel

Overview

Pay Pal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. We enable consumers and businesses in ~200 markets to move money, sell, and shop securely and simply. We operate a global, two-sided network connecting hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers, providing proprietary payment solutions, authorization and settlement capabilities, and end-to-end support for cross-border trade.

We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments online or in person. Our Pay Pal, Venmo, and Xoom products enable transfers between friends and family, and we provide tools to manage risk, returns, exchanges, and rapid access to funds.

Our beliefs guide daily business through our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. We strive to work as one global team with customers at the center of everything we do.

This role sits within Pay Pal’s Developer Relations (Dev Rel) team and focuses on improving the experience of external developers building on Pay Pal platforms. The Developer Advocate partners with engineering, product, and documentation teams to represent the voice of the developer, identify friction points, and influence improvements across APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling. The role emphasizes creating and delivering high-quality technical content — including blogs, demos, tutorials, videos, and live presentations — to help developers onboard quickly and build confidently.

Acting as a trusted technical resource, the Developer Advocate engages with the developer community through conferences, events, webinars, and online channels, while synthesizing feedback into actionable insights for internal teams. This is an individual contributor role with a strong external-facing and cross-functional collaboration focus.

• Uses data to build insights on product or platform requirements consistent with the shared vision for the product.
• Gathers insights from the customer experience and customer
  
  Needs to input to product requirements.
• Analyzes research, market analysis and usability studies to support data-driven decision making.
• Monitors product profitability measures, including budget.
• Lead sprint planning, daily standups and retrospectives to drive execution. Interfaces with product and technology leadership as needed.
• Partner with content developers, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers to identify new opportunities.

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Serve as an advocate for developers by influencing improvements to APIs, SDKs, documentation, and developer workflows
• Create and maintain technical content such as blogs, tutorials, demos, and sample applications
• Represent Pay Pal at developer conferences, hackathons, meetups, and virtual events
• Partner with engineering, product, and UX teams to relay developer feedback and improve developer experience
• Build tooling, demos, or automation to support developer onboarding and education

• 3+ years of experience with web, frontend, or commerce technologies, including APIs and SDKs
• Experience using developer-focused AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Replit)
• Familiarity with open-source frameworks and modern developer ecosystems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
• Passion for teaching, mentoring, and engaging with developer communities
• Creative approach to technical storytelling and education

Pay Pal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience. The total compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit the Pay Pal benefits site.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $123,500 to $212,850. Pay Pal does…