Technical Evangelist

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. Tigera’s open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution.

Powering more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.

As our team grows, we are looking for colleagues who not only share our passion for this work and growing our company, but who will also strengthen our company values and help ensure that Tigera remains a great place to work. At our core, our focus is on our customers, who are the heroes of our story; on aiming high and staying nimble in how we get there; on continuous learning to drive our success; and on respecting, collaborating, and supporting each other on a daily basis.

If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you!

About Your Role

We are looking for a Technical Evangelist to join our team and create compelling and exciting content for securing and observing AI workloads. Reporting directly to CTO and working with a small co-located engineering team in Cork, you will be the first Technical Evangelist dedicated to how Tigera can help in securing and observing AI workloads.

You will partner directly with the CTO and the engineering team, and engage with the community to create influential content to help shape the category. You will get the opportunity to work hands-on with the engineering team to understand the products and new features at a deep technical level and how to translate into compelling content. The successful candidate will work hybrid out of our Cork city office.

You will:

Create Category-Defining Technical Content

• Build highly technical blogs, workshops, and demo environments for AI workloads in Kubernetes. Become an expert in protocols such as A2A and MCP and technologies like AI Gateways and proxies, LLM model serving patterns and more.

• Produce architectural explanations, deep dives, and clear diagrams for engineering audiences.

• Write and publish hands-on tutorials showing how teams can secure and observe AI workloads - including best practices and learnings from this new and fast-moving space

Be a Technical Voice for Tigera in this space

• Present at meetups, conferences, internal events, and community spaces.

• Engage deeply on LinkedIn, GitHub, and industry forums about AI infra, agent security, and emerging standards.

• Host technical walkthroughs for early design partners and early adopters.

Collaborate Closely With Engineering

• Work directly with core developers to understand new features and shape messaging.

• Collect field feedback to influence product direction.

• Help define early design patterns, best-practice architectures, and the developer experience.

Understand the Ecosystem

• Become an expert in the emerging Agentic AI space, keeping a close eye on all the relevant new projects and trends and developments happening.

• Create relationships and potential opportunities for collaboration with project and people in the community

• Contribute example code, adapters, integrations etc. that help developers adopt the platform.

You have:

• Demonstrated ability to create technical content for developers, platform engineers, and architects.

• Fantastic presentation skills with an ability to break down complex technical concepts into clear, engaging stories

• Experience creating technical content (e.g., blog posts, social content, webinars, meetups, conferences)

• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes the initiative to learn and deliver.

• 3+ years of experience in technical evangelism, product management, or solutions architecture in open source or enterprise software

• Experience with cloud platforms and services e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure

• Experience creating technical content - engaging blog series, LinkedIn posts, technical video content

Highly Desired

• Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes is a big bonus

• Experience with AI/ML in some capacity is a strong plus - especially with AI agents, LLMs and emerging technologies in GenAI.
Background in producing engaging, high-fidelity demo environments.

• Prior contributions to open-source communities, ideally in the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• You’ll be a visible voice in the Kubernetes and cloud-native community, representing the most widely adopted Kubernetes networking and security solution.
You’ll have creative freedom to experiment with content formats—from hands-on demos to short social videos to deep-dive technical blogs.

• You’ll work with a passionate, knowledgeable team that values technical excellence and authentic storytelling.

• You’ll get the chance to work in a cutting-edge space such as securing and observing AI workloads helping shape a new category in the tech industry

If you’re excited about combining technical depth, community engagement, and storytelling to help the world’s leading organizations understand and adopt Tigera’s products to help them observe and secure AI workloads, we’d love to hear from you.

With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.