Google Hiring for Developer Relations Engineer, Looker at Santa Cruz, CA Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience as a software engineer, developer, or equivalent technical experience.
- Experience working with JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Ruby, Node.js, Go, iOS, Android Mobile App development, and/or web technologies.
- Experience in a technical consulting or customer-facing capacity.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with third-party developer tools, including documentation, APIs, SDKs, and client libraries.
- Experience participating in online and offline developer communities and ecosystems (e.g., open source platforms, blogs, YouTube video series, tech conferences, hackathons, meet ups, technical teaching, and training).
About the job
As a Developer Relations Engineer, you’ll work on our YouTube channels, in podcasts and trainings, or support channels to troubleshoot and debug technical problems encountered by developers. Internally, you’ll work with product engineering teams to improve products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing and contributing to API designs, writing production ready code, and testing new features.
You will join our team of Developer Advocates and Developer Programs Engineers to collaborate and connect with communities that love technology as much as we do. Our team interacts with developers across the globe both at conferences as well as online, and advocates for third-party developer interests and needs internally at Google. Our focus is on supporting third-party developers who build applications and businesses on Google’s platforms.
Responsibilities
- Manage and participate in developer discussion forums, troubleshoot and address the concerns raised in these forums, and educate developers on best practices for effective integration of Google developer products.
- Assist third-party developers and strategic partners in troubleshooting integrations with Google APIs and use of other Google developer products online.
- Work on the core source code of Google’s products with other engineers to identify, reproduce, and fix issues that are affecting our users.
- Advocate for developers internally, and influence Google developer product strategy by working with cross-functional teams.
- Write, release, and manage open source Software Development Kits (SDKs), demo apps, tools, samples, blog posts, technical guides, or videos. Contribute to and manage open source projects and drive open standards.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.