Finding a developer relations job

Geertjan Wielenga: Once you have programming skills, how do you find these developer relations positions?

Ted Neward: In the same way that you find any other position. On the one hand, yes, there are the job sites that have keyword searches and so forth, but on the other hand, much of it is word of mouth still.

Finding a programming position is not that hard, but some of these companies don't know that they need a developer relations team. So, certainly, there's a challenge there from the standpoint that if you want to work for company Z and it doesn't have a developer relations team, you may have to go and convince people. The hard part is, obviously, that you have to convince people that they're wrong and that they do need this thing. But I think that that is going to become easier as more and more companies do this.

If you're Zeeks Pizza, which is a local pizza chain here in the Washington State area, and you have APIs, then when...