Developer Experience Engineer, Descope
AI Products
$130-170k
Office located in Los Altos, CA
Customer and agentic identity platform
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Customer and agentic identity platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-170k
Office located in Los Altos, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make customer identity an enabler for every business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in Developer Relations, Solutions Engineering, or a similar technical, customer facing role
- Strong software engineering background with hands on coding experience
- Proficiency in JavaScript (React, Node.js, Next.js) and experience with additional languages such as Python or Go
- Experience supporting developers through integrations, onboarding, and production deployments
- Solid understanding of authentication and authorization concepts (AuthN/AuthZ) and modern identity systems
- Experience working with AI systems or agent based workflows, with familiarity in relevant protocols such as MCP
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
- Proven experience creating technical content including documentation, demos, tutorials, or sample apps
- Ability to work cross functionally with Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams
Desirable
- Experience contributing to open source projects or developer ecosystems
- Background in identity, security, or authentication platforms
- Experience speaking at conferences or leading technical workshops
- Familiarity with SDK design, APIs, and developer tooling
What the job involves
- Our Developer Relations team sits at the center of how developers experience Descope. From first integration to production rollout, DevRel works closely with the community to ensure developers can successfully adopt, implement, and scale authentication using Descope
- This is an engineer first role. You will work hands on with developers, build real integrations, create technical content, and influence product direction based on direct feedback from the field
- Partner with developers to support evaluation, integration, and production use of Descope
- Lead technical implementations and POCs, guiding customers through architecture, design, and troubleshooting
- Advocate for developers by gathering feedback and working closely with Product and Engineering to influence the roadmap
- Focus on Agentic AI use cases, helping define secure patterns for authentication and authorization in AI driven systems
- Build and maintain SDKs, sample applications, and integrations that simplify adoption, especially in AI agent workflows
- Create high quality technical content including documentation, guides, demos, blogs, and videos
- Contribute to open source projects and integrations across platforms and ecosystems
- Plan and deliver developer focused events such as workshops, webinars, hackathons, and conference talks
- Engage with the community across channels such as Slack, forums, GitHub, and developer platforms
- Support product launches with clear, practical technical enablement for developers
Our take
Descope offers an authentication and user management platform that enables developers to add passwordless authentication and user management capabilities to their B2C and B2B apps.
Whilst the importance of good security is obvious, passwords have begun to represent one of the worst parts of the user experience. Whether that be the time it ends up occupying, or recent accounts of some of the largest online free password managers experiencing hacking and security issues. Descope, therefore, offers an alternative option and takes charge of authentication so app developers can instead focus on business-critical tasks.
The company closed an $88M seed in 2023 and added an extra $35M to it in late 2025. With this funding it plans to grow its product capabilities, invest in research and support open source initiatives around authentication, authorization and user management.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2025
$35m
SEED
Feb 2023
$53m
SEED
Total funding: $88m
Company HQ
North Los Altos, Los Altos, CA
Leadership
Slavik Markovich
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded and acted as CEO for Demisto before serving as Senior Vice President of Demisto under Palo Alto Networks. Experience as Vice President and CTO for McAfee.
Dan Sarel
(Co-Founder)Previously VP of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks, VP of Endpoint Security Strategy at McAfee and VP of Product and Business Development at Sentrigo.
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