Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Internal Developer Relations

Benefits

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

Note:

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
San Jose, CA, USA;
Kirkland, WA, USA;
New York, NY, USA
.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of work experience in a technical role (e.g., software engineering, solutions consultant, etc.) or equivalent technical experience.
• 7 years of experience in organizational and technological transformation.

• Experience working in a Developer Relations or Developer Advocacy role.
• Experience leading change in complex, enterprise environments.
• Understanding of software development life-cycles and best practices.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across various teams and levels.

Passionate people are everywhere  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  afraid to 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 as well as our core Google Applications 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.

In this role, you will empower developers with AI-ready knowledge, trusted content, and scaled, targeted enablement programs to accelerate Google's internal velocity. You will drive efforts to radically increase internal velocity at Google by engaging with partner teams across the organization. You will lead a crucial part of AI Enablement efforts by helping identify emerging trends in Google’s Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC), working to reduce friction in internal stacks, and help internal teams make investments and transform, based on metrics and insights.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure se are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems.

As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $240,000-$334,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience,…