We’re hiring a Developer Relations Intern to help grow and engage Soda’s technical community. You’ll work closely with the founding team, engineering, and growth to build open-source projects, create high-quality content, and be an active presence in the data and observability ecosystem. Your work will make it easier for data and ML engineers to adopt Soda, learn from community use cases, and contribute back. This role is a mix of coding, writing, advocacy, and community-building. If successful, we expect you to grow into a full-time DevRel, Developer Advocate, or Technical Product role.

Responsibilities

You’ll be hands-on across DevRel and community activities, including:

Build open-source projects and example repos that showcase Soda’s products
Write clear, technically accurate content:

Tutorials, guides, walkthroughs, engineering blog posts
Integration how-tos and community success stories

Speak with users and help them solve technical problems

Answer questions in Slack, GitHub, and forums
Triage issues, gather feedback, and bring it back to the team

Present in community calls, webinars, and conferences
Collaborate with product and engineering to improve the developer experience
Help grow and nurture our open-source contributor base

About Us

Soda monitors the world’s data and decisions.We’re building the first platform for Data and AI performance monitoring, covering everything from data ingestion to automated decision-making. Soda helps teams detect, resolve, and prevent data quality issues through automated monitoring and pipeline testing. We shift data quality left—putting control into the hands of engineers. As of June 2025, we’re launching the next chapter. We’re introducing the fastest, most accurate tools in data observability and launching the world’s first Collaborative Data Contracts. We’re rethinking how teams align on, trust, and operate with data. Learn more: https://launch.soda.io/launch-week

Founded in 2019 by Maarten (ex-Collibra GTM) and Tom (OSS veteran behind projects worth hundreds of millions). In 2025, Soda acquired NannyML and added three new co-founders: Hakim, Wojtek, and Wiljan. Soda Core, our open-source project, is used by Tesla, Slack, Adyen, Walmart, and JPMC. Soda, is backed by Point Nine, Hummingbird, Singular, Lunar Ventures, and Eurazeo.

Our Values

We value freedom with responsibility, transparency, and a growth mindset. We dislike politics and bullshit and value open and direct communication without judgment. We proactively bring up and address potential issues before they become critical and overcommunicate frequently. Working at Soda, you will have full autonomy to make impactful product and roadmap decisions and prioritize and organize your work how you see fit.

Why You’ll Love to Join Soda

Be Part of a Transformation: We’re entering a pivotal phase, and your work will define the industry’s future.
Experience Fast Growth: Work with a fast-growing international VC-funded startup with a flat structure.
Small, High-Impact Team: Join a tight-knit product team of passionate builders. We move fast and push each other to improve.
Ownership from Day One: You will have full ownership of the things you work on. If you see a bottleneck, you fix it. If you want to overhaul our onboarding experience, you have the runway.
International Culture: Our team spans 12+ countries. Learn from different perspectives and collaborate across time zones.
Work on Your Own Terms: Fully remote, flexible work, with as many opportunities to meet up as you want!

What You Might Not Love

Rapidly Changing Priorities: In a fast-moving expansion phase, our roadmap can pivot quickly. It's a fast-paced environment with a LOT of work to be done.
Flexibility Required: You will have to learn new things all the time.

Join us to change the way the world sees Data Quality.

Requirements

You’ve built and shipped real code—either projects, scripts, or tools you can show
Strong technical communication skills, written and verbal
You’re comfortable writing Python, and working with CLI tools, APIs, GitHub, and data workflows
Curious, self-directed, and confident learning in public
You thrive in community spaces and know how to engage people without fluff
You’re comfortable being on camera and giving live demos or screencasts
Available to start in November
Based in or willing to relocate to a European time zone, with occasional travel (~1x/quarter)

Nice to haves

Prior experience contributing to open-source projects
Knowledge of modern data stack tools (e.g. dbt, Airflow, Spark, Snowflake)
Familiarity with the observability or MLOps space
Experience in startups or fast-paced environments
You’ve published content (personal blog, newsletter, YouTube, Dev.to, etc)

This is not a passive internship. You’ll be expected to operate like a core part of the growth team.

Benefits

Compensation: 850 EUR/month part time (20H week)

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