Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act., Passionate people are everywhere at Google. In Developer Relations, we get excited to collaborate and connect with the communities that love technology as much as we do. Part community manager and part developer advocate, Developer Relations Engineers collaborate with developers at conferences and online, and advocate for developers interests internally at Google. Not afraid to be hands-on, you write sample code and client libraries as well as participate in developer forums and support queues to troubleshoot and debug coding problems developers encounter. Internally, you work with product engineering teams to improve our products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing API designs and testing new features.

With your technical expertise, you drive strategy around fostering a community of developers who work with Google technologies. An ardent advocate for these developers, you represent their voice internally to our Product Managers and serve as their Google support in application development and technology implementation.

Our team explores what's next for Cloud and developers by running experiments, reporting findings to our organization, and aligning teams that we can capitalize on in the market.

We work both as individuals and as a team to evaluate nascent technologies, patterns, and ideas to determine their relevancy for developers. We do our work publicly so all developers can learn from our successes and failures.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $192000 - $279000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Canada: $204000 - $210000 (CAD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits, * Ideate, form, and run experiments based on market or developer trends, synthesizing and sharing findings with the broader team.

• Act as a community liaison to emerging groups to establish relationships and understand developer signals.
• Interact with Google Cloud and other executives to understand market roadmaps and trends.
• Work both as an individual and with the team on work and can shift between leading and contributing on key projects.
• Take initiative focused on personal and scaled growth, looking for ways to continuously improve personal knowledge and productivity.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of work experience in a technical role (e.g., software engineering, solutions consultant, etc.) or equivalent technical experience.
• 3 years of experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning, and related frameworks.
• Experience with cloud platforms and technologies., * Experience as a software developer, consultant, educator, community manager, product manager, CTO, or consultant.
• Experience in developing or delivering software, including coding experience in one or more of the following languages like Java, Python, C#, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP.
• Experience communicating at technology conferences, blogging/writing technical articles with an existing follower base, or contributing to a popular open source project.
• Proven track record of setting technical strategy for large teams and large projects.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

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