Solutions Engineer leads the field
Solutions Engineer is the most in-demand developer relations role (849 open, 72% of the field), followed by Sales Engineer (250).
Developer Relations · State of the market
State of the Developer Relations job market.
A live read on developer relations hiring, built from 1,172 open roles across 200 companies - the 6th-largest field we track, and 2% of everything open. Updated hourly from public job postings.
Synced from public job postings · snapshot September 2026
1,172
Open roles
+67
Posted this week
200
Companies hiring
$191k
Median base, where disclosed
What the data says
Four things the listings tell us
There are 1,172 open developer relations roles across 200 companies on LandEarly right now, with 67 posted in the past week. Senior-level roles make up 54% of the openings, and 81% of roles that specify a work model are fully remote.
Weighted toward senior experience
54% of open developer relations roles read as senior-level. Entry-level (intern + junior) roles are 6% - a signal of how open this field is to early-career candidates.
A remote-friendly field
Of developer relations roles that specify a work model, 81% are fully remote and 2% are hybrid. (Many listings don't declare one - this is the share among those that do.)
Companies hiring right now
Databricks is the most active employer in developer relations (114 open roles, 10% of the field), but the openings are spread across 200 companies in total.
Where the demand is
One field, 4 different jobs
“Developer Relations” is a bucket, not a job. It rolls up 4 titles that share a craft but not a day - different scope, different level, different pay band. Which title you're chasing is the first cut worth making.
Open roles by title
Share of 1,172 listingsExperience level
All open rolesIntern<1%
Junior6%
Mid35%
Senior54%
Staff1%
Principal2%
Executive2%
Read off each posting at ingest, not a field employers fill in - so this is a share of all 1,172 open roles, with nothing left out.
Work model
Where declaredOn-site 17%Hybrid 2%Remote 81%
Only 535 of 1,172 developer relations listings declare a work model. These shares cover those, and no others.
Freshness
What’s open, by the week it posted
How old the live developer relations pipeline is - the window where applying early still puts you in front of a human instead of a stack.
Jun 22This week
+67
developer relations roles posted in the last seven days, across 200 employers - 6% of everything open in the field.
Each bar is the open roles posted that week, not a count of everything posted then: roles that have since closed are gone from it, so older weeks read lighter by design. The window starts when we began ingesting developer relations listings, because a week-by-week series that ran further back would measure our board coverage rather than the market. 76 listings carry no posting date and sit out of this chart.
Pay, where disclosed
Base salary, from listings that state one
Base only. Bonus, commission and equity are real money but listings describe them too inconsistently to compare, so they stay out of the maths rather than inflate it.
25th percentile
$155k
The bottom of the middle 50%
Median
$191k
Half of priced listings pay more
75th percentile
$224k
Top of the middle 50%
$155k$191k$224k
What the number is
Computed from the 336 open developer relations listings that state an annual base range - one midpoint per listing. The other 836 state none, and are not estimated in.
Solutions Engineer salary guideWho's hiring, and where
200 companies, 10 metros
Most active employers
Open developer relations roles
Top locations
Open developer relations rolesSan Francisco, CA118
New York, NY90
Denver, CO21
Boston, MA14
Chicago, IL14
Seattle, WA12
Austin, TX10
📍 Toronto, ON9
Atlanta, GA6
Washington, DC6
Employers write locations as free text, so every spelling of a city is resolved to one market before it’s counted. A listing naming several markets counts in each, so these don’t sum to the field. The 866 that name no city - remote, “Hybrid”, a campus or a building - sit out entirely rather than get attributed to one.
Methodology
How we compute this
Short version: we count listings, we don't model them. Where the data is thin, the page says so instead of guessing.
Counted, not estimated
Every figure comes from the 1,172 active developer relations listings we track across 9 applicant-tracking systems, ingested hourly from public job boards. A role that closes this morning drops out this afternoon.
Shares state their own denominator
Work-model percentages cover only the 535 listings that declare one. Experience level is read off every posting at ingest, so those shares cover the whole field. We’d rather show the smaller base than fill the gap.
A field rolls up related titles
Developer Relations covers Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, Developer Advocate and 1 more titles. A posting joins a title when its own text describes that job - the roll-up is on the classified role, never on a keyword in the headline.
FAQ
Common questions
How many developer relations jobs are open right now?
1,172 as of September 2026, across 200 companies, with 67 posted in the last seven days. The count is recomputed every hour and roles that close drop out the same day.
Which developer relations roles are most in demand?
Solutions Engineer (849 open), Sales Engineer (250 open), and Developer Advocate (60 open) - out of 4 developer relations titles carrying at least one open role today.
Are developer relations jobs remote?
Of the 535 developer relations listings that declare a work model, 81% are fully remote, 2% hybrid and 17% on-site. Most listings never say, so this is the share among those that do - not of the whole field.
What does a developer relations job pay?
Median disclosed base is $191k, with the middle 50% between $155k and $224k. That is base only, computed from the 336 open developer relations listings that state an annual range - bonus, commission and equity are excluded because listings describe them too inconsistently to compare.
What experience level are developer relations jobs?
54% of open developer relations roles read as senior-level, and 6% are entry-level (intern or junior). The level is read off each posting when we ingest it, so every open role is counted here.
Other fields
Beyond Developer Relations
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