We’re building something ambitious at Fly.io: a new public cloud, running on our own hardware all over the world, built to make it easy to run apps close to users everywhere.
Fly.io’s core compute primitive is Machines: fast-booting, Firecracker-based VMs that behave like containers, persist state, and can spin up on demand. They’re already powering a growing wave of AI infra companies.
We’re hiring someone who can understand what our customers are trying to solve for their users and then write about it (a lot). This isn’t a devrel role, and it’s not copywriting. It’s closer to strategy through storytelling. Your job is to figure out what’s resonating with early adopters, and help share that information with the world.
This Role
You’ll act like a journalist: ask questions to get past the surface layer of “we’re deploying agents” to what actually matters: the problems that this new wave of companies is solving, and how they’re doing it in innovative (or weird) ways. Then you’ll write the clearest version of that story, in places where these communities are gathering, so other people building in this space can learn from it and move faster.
We might call this “product marketing” if that term didn’t feel kind of boring and overburdened. It’s really just talking to people, understanding what they want to accomplish, and describing it in writing. We’re discovering what infrastructure needs to do in a post-LLM world, and we need someone who’d curious, fast, and good at keeping with up a world that seems to be changing every day. And we want you to help us share what we’re figuring out.
This role will be a good fit for you if:
- You like stories and want to tell them.
- You understand the world of LLMs and agents and keep up with it. You don’t think of yourself as an “expert,” because you know it’s a rapidly evolving situation, and that whatever you know today is going to be wrong tomorrow.
- You’re a strong writer who can turn messy, complex technical input into something clear, useful, and opinionated.
- You’ve got instincts about how to share information in a way that actually reaches early-stage builders (we like our blog posts, but we’re thinking of that as the jumping off point).
- You’re technically fluent enough to ask good questions and hold your own in a conversation with infra and product engineers.
- You’re energized by how fast this space is moving, and you can move just as fast. You can turn around content quickly enough to lead the conversation, not just keep up with it.
How We Hire
This is a mid-to-senior, full-time position. We’re remote, but we’re especially interested in folks in North America who can be in San Francisco or New York now and then to meet people-building-interesting-apps in person.
In order to optimize for pay equity, Fly.io doesn’t negotiate salaries. We have standardized salaries for each employee level. The salary for this role is $190k USD. We offer competitive equity grants with a long exercise window. We provide health care benefits, flexible vacation time (with a minimum), hardware/phone allowances, the standard stuff.
Our hiring process is a little different. We don’t do rounds of interviews with whiteboards and trivia. Instead, we’ll give you a short work sample that mirrors the kind of thing you’d be doing in the role — usually something small and real. If that’s fun for you, we’re probably going to work well together.
If you’re interested, email jobs+product-writer@fly.io. You can tell us a bit about yourself, if you like. Please include your location (country), and a link to something you’ve written (especially something where you were learning in public or making a technical concept clearer).