Technical Content Engineer

About Trigger.dev

Trigger.dev is the platform for running reliable AI agents and workflows. Developers use it to build, deploy, and scale production systems with built-in tools for orchestration, scheduling, monitoring, and debugging.

Our Cloud product is a managed service where we deploy our users' code and auto-scale from zero to millions of executions. Today, we serve thousands of teams building AI apps and agents, handling hundreds of millions of executions per month.

About the position

We're looking for a Technical Content Engineer to help us become top-of-mind for developers building AI agents. This is a hybrid role for someone who actually builds with code and writes for an audience - not a marketer who can read TypeScript, and not an engineer who occasionally blogs, but someone who treats content as a craft and ships it with the same rigour as production code.

You'll own technical content end to end: strategy, production, distribution, and measurement. You'll build with our product, ship things alongside our engineering team, and turn what you learn into blog posts, video, demos, and tweet threads that the AI agent community actually wants to read. You'll also work directly with our founders to help shape and produce content that goes out under their names.

This is a senior IC role. You'll be our first dedicated content hire, so the strategy is yours to define.

What you'll be doing

You'll do a variety of things including:

• Producing technical content. Blog posts, tutorials, video, tweet threads, demo apps - whatever format best lands the idea. The bar is content that gets read, shared, and converts developers into users.

• Owning content strategy. You'll decide what we should be writing about, which channels we should be on, what success looks like, and how often we should ship. You'll communicate that plan to the rest of the team and adjust as we learn.

• Building with the product. You'll write real TypeScript on top of Trigger.dev - sample apps, integrations, reference implementations - both because it's some of our best content and because you can't write credibly about something you don't use.

• Supporting founder content. You'll work with Matt and the team to produce posts, threads, and longer pieces that go out under their own names. Some of this is editing, some is ghost-writing, all of it is collaborative.

• Measuring and iterating. Setting up conversion tracking, running A/B tests on content, looking at what worked and what didn't, and adjusting. We want a feedback loop, not a publishing calendar.

• Reading the room on our audience. The dev tools and AI agent crowd has a specific sensibility - technical, informal, a bit irreverent. You should already get it.

• Shaping how we tell our story. What we sound like, what we're known for, what we don't bother saying - you'll influence all of it.

Requirements

You really need to have:

• Strong TypeScript skills. You can ship real applications, not just snippets. Our stack is Node/TypeScript and you'll be building demos and reference apps on top of it.

• A track record of external technical content that has performed. Public examples we can read, watch, or scroll through - blog posts, tweet threads, YouTube videos, talks. We care more about evidence of work that landed than what your job title was.

• Fluency with the current AI tooling landscape. You build with AI agents and the surrounding stack, you understand where Trigger.dev fits, and you can hold a credible conversation with the developers we're trying to reach.

• Strategic instincts alongside production chops. You can write the blog post, but you can also tell us which blog posts we should be writing, what channels we should be on, and what we should measure.

• Strong written communication and high EQ. You can work independently and still keep the rest of the team in the loop on what you're shipping, why, and how it's tracking. You can take feedback in a public channel without bristling, and give it the same way.

You'll be an amazing fit if you have:

• An existing audience on Twitter/X, YouTube, or a personal blog in the developer or AI space

• Previously worked in-house at a dev tools, dev infra, or AI infra company in a content, DevRel, or growth-engineering capacity

• Experience producing content that has gone viral or driven measurable signups for a product

• A proven track record of contributing to open source projects

• Comfort on camera (video, YouTube, screencasts)

• Previously been a founder, indie hacker, or built and grown your own product
  

About the team

• We are a small team with a flat hierarchy

• We encourage continuous learning and personal development

• Everyone operates autonomously; we trust you to get the job done, but to also quickly raise your hand if you need help

• We care about our customers and the open-source community

• Being a start-up, the work is challenging and fast-paced, but we also understand the importance of taking time off to recharge

• Working at a Commercial Open Source Software company is more than just shipping content. We have an active community on Discord and GitHub. Everyone on the team helps customers, reviews PRs, and creates issues

Salary

We use PostHog's salary calculator to benchmark fair and transparent compensation, which varies based on employee location and level of experience.

Benefits

• Generous, transparent compensation and equity - We hire the best talent and pay to reflect that. We also offer equity as a way to ensure everyone is invested in the success of the company.

• Async working - Need a heads-down day or meeting-free days to stay productive? No problem!

• Home office - We will help provide equipment for a comfortable setup so you're as productive at home as you are in the office.

• Generous vacation - We believe it's important to take time off. We encourage you to take your 25 days vacation excluding national holidays, plus sick leave and generous parental leave.

• Training budget - An annual budget to contribute towards learning such as purchasing books, an Audible subscription or online courses.

• Pension and 401k contributions - Enroll in our company pension scheme or we'll contribute directly to your private pension.

Our values

• We are proud to be open source - We believe in the open source community and building a great free-to-use product. We encourage community contributions and are public about what we are building.

• We ship uncomfortably fast - As a startup, moving fast is key. We are pragmatic about what we build, when we build it, and value iterative development above all.

• Working autonomously - We don't tell you what to do. We decide as a team what will have the biggest impact for our customers and prioritise what we work on from that.

Interview process

1. Application - We'll review your application and the content examples you share with us.

2. Screening call - A chat with our Chief of Staff about your background, the kind of content you've shipped, and what you're looking for next.

3. Hiring manager call - A deeper conversation about your work, your view on content strategy, and how you'd approach the role.

4. Paid task day - You'll spend a paid day working on a real piece of content or strategy artefact with us, then walk us through your thinking with the team.

5. Final interview - A call with a couple of members of the wider team to answer any remaining questions and align on culture fit.

6. References & offer - If everyone is happy, we'll make you an offer to join us.

If this sounds like your dream job, we can't wait to hear from you. If you're not sure that you exactly fit these requirements, get in touch anyway!