About MotherDuck
Don’t let the quirky name fool you! We’re on a mission to radically transform the data analyst user experience. We think we can empower and delight analysts using a novel cloud architecture built on top of DuckDB, an open source foundation with a vibrant community.
Our team is a diverse mix of passionate, collaborative and empathetic data industry veterans from Google, Amazon, Meta, Snowflake, SingleStore, and Databricks.
What is a MotherDucking advocate?
We’re building MotherDuck using DuckDB not only because it’s an amazing SQL engine, but also because of its passionate and engaged open source community. We’ve already launched our minimally-viable product, and we have an opportunity to grow DuckDB awareness and adoption in the data analyst community.
You’ll empower data analysts and engineers
We believe advocacy is about helping people solve their problems faster and with less pain, enabling them to sleep better knowing they love their work. You can help them by educating them on how they can make their workflows easier, connecting them with other data analysts and engineers in the ecosystem, working with them to get their bugs and feature requests the attention they deserve, and giving them a platform to share their lessons learned and best practices.
How you’ll accomplish this
Produce enlightening content, building an interactive audience
Videos: best practices, interviews, etc.
Writing: blog posts, social media posts, docs, tutorials, etc.
Talks: for online and offline consumption
Samples: data analyses, integrations, etc.
Engage the community, helping them along the way
Events: conferences, meetups
Discussion: Discord, StackOverflow, Reddit, etc.
Social: Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media
1:1: discussions with users and influencers, helping them with DuckDB and/or MotherDuck
What people should be saying if you’re doing ducking awesome
Wow, those MotherDuck folks are super helpful. I didn’t know DuckDB could do
so easily! I really want to go to Coalesce this year.
from MotherDuck is speaking and I always love their talks. I’m super stoked that the MotherDuck folks tweeted about my project. Makes me feel loved.
I watch the MotherDuck online meetup every other week - they also interview really interesting guests with fascinating stories on data analytics.
These are just examples but should give you some ideas! We’ll work together to come up with the exact projects that should be most effective for our shared goals.
Requirements
Knowledge of SQL
Experience speaking and/or producing content around data technologies.
Experience with some data technologies like DuckDB, Parquet, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Spark, Hadoop/MapReduce, Kafka, BigQuery, dbt, FiveTran, Tableau, Superset, Looker, Power BI, Airflow, Dagster, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Redshift, Prefect, Jupyter notebooks, etc.
Experience with one or more programming languages, like Python, Java, Go, C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Scala, or equivalent.
Nice to haves, but definitely not deal breakers
Professional experience as a data analyst, data engineer, or data scientist
Professional experience as a developer advocate
What we provide
Competitive compensation and stock options
100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees
80% paid medical, dental, and vision for dependents
Unlimited Paid Time Off
401k plan
Regular offsites in hub or exotic locations
Remote-friendly work environment
Please Apply
Does this role sound appealing to you, but you’re missing some of the requirements or don’t quite think you’re qualified? Please apply anyway. Research has shown that underrepresented groups in technology often shy away from roles which aren’t a 100% match. We aim to build a diverse team and will strongly consider applicants who bring many of the requirements plus have other experiences which round out their qualifications.