Minimum qualifications:

• 5 years of software engineering experience, including experience coding in Java and/or Kotlin.
• Experience with the Android platform and ecosystem.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in a support or consulting relationship with customers.
• Experience in a technical account manager, solutions consultant, customer engineer or software developer role working with mobile technologies.
• Experience working directly with the ecosystem of software development kits (SDKs) and libraries used in successful mobile applications.
• Experience in developer relations, and working with third-parties or partners.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively.

About the job

Passionate people are everywhere at Google. In Developer Relations, we are 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 to improve our products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing API designs, and testing new features. Chrome, Android, App Engine, HTML5, and our core Google Workspace and Ads APIs are just some of the platforms you promote and support.

Our team's mission is to drive partner success with engineering direction and support, accelerating adoption of Android and Google Play technologies. Our focus is on supporting major third-party developers who build applications for Android and Google Play.

As a Developer Relations Engineer, you will manage technical relationships with partners and provide engineering support and guidance to them. You will help drive developer strategy with product teams, acting as the representative of your partners to bring mutually beneficial features to market.

Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Additional Information
(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $106,000 bonus equity benefits.
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

• Work with Google's strategic partners to drive adoption of product/application programming indicators integrations across Android and Play ecosystem.
• Serve in a partner facing role, take regular engineering-focused meetings with partners to help them design new systems, fix bugs, improve UX, and solve complex code problems at a large scale.
• Interface directly with strategic partners managing technical aspects of partner integrations.
• Work collaboratively with Business Development, Product, and Engineering teams to support expansion of partner and Google business and bring mutually beneficial products and features to market.
• Identify technology-driven strategies for partner success and operational efficiency.