Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android and Business Communications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Candidates will typically have 5 years of experience in software engineering, product management, technical account management, sales engineering, or related fields.
  
• Experience speaking at tech conferences, writing technical articles, or contributing to a popular open source project.
  
• Experience in internet technologies such as HTTP, TCP/IP, HTML, JavaScript, or Unix/Linux.
  
• Experience with a programming language such as Java, C/C++, C#, or Python.
  
• Experience with integration in the web or mobile advertising ecosystem as well as working with external partners.

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to take ownership of solutions and exert influence without authority.
  
• Ability to share technical knowledge and information with others.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  

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.

Communication is at the center of users’ lives and is the most engaging way users use their smartphones every day. Google is investing in communication services such as Messaging and Dialler. Rich Communication Services (RCS) and Rich Business Messaging are the new standards revolutionising the experience for users.
Our mission is to scale a safe, helpful, and business messaging experience to RCS users. Our mission goes beyond just moving SMS traffic to RBM traffic as we will unlock business generating use cases that differentiate the Android messaging ecosystem.

Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

• Engage cross-functionally across our key partners’ organizations and be the primary technical point of contact to and from our partners.
  
• Advocate for the partners internally, and influence Google developer product strategy by working with Product Management, Engineering, PR, Marketing, and Business Development.
  
• Unlock growth both by understanding how partners can better leverage Google products and services as well as being their voice to cross-functional teams.
  
• Identify gaps in the current product offering, be able to document the requirements, and demonstrate business impact that would result from supporting new or additional functionality.
  
• Promote developer products in person and online by presenting at conferences, blogging, writing technical tutorials, etc. Provide technical guidance and expertise to ecosystem partners about best practices, diagnose and help resolve operational issues, and ensure all impediments to success are identified and removed.
  

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 Googles 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.