Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Experience working with developers and developer tools (e.g., Application Programming Interface (API), Stack Overflow, etc.)
Ability to speak and write in Spanish and Portuguese fluently
Preferred qualifications:
5 years of experience in a technical role working with API design
Experience working with partners on complex projects
About the job
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 Programs 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 improve our products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing API designs and testing new features. Chrome, Android, App Engine, HTML5 as well as our core Google Apps and Ads APIs are just some of the platforms you promote and support.
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.
As a Developer Relations Engineer, you will manage relationships with partners and provide engineering support. You'll help drive developer strategy with product teams and represent partners to bring features to market.
Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.
Responsibilities
Provide strategic guidance and solutions, bringing internal, external, technical, and non-technical stakeholders together.
Help revolutionize the advertising ecosystem, making it easy and accessible to all through technology and guidance.
Work with third-party engineers who are building applications and businesses with Google Ads API.
Connect with engineers, derive problems, and create solutions. Foster a community to help drive our developer relations strategy.
Provide architectural guidance to partners and create/maintain open source solutions that can be used across multiple use cases.
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.