Developer Relations Engineer
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- Compensation
- $156,000 – $229,000 USD
- City
- San Francisco
- Country
- United States
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Developer Relations Engineer at Google Looker/Cloud BI team collaborates with developers at conferences and online, advocating for external developer needs and feedback. The role is hands-on, writing sample code and client libraries, participating in developer forums and support queues, and communicating insights to product engineering to improve APIs and features. You will build public content (videos, articles, demos, codelabs) and engage with external developers at live events and online communities to drive adoption of Looker and Cloud BI tools. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, USA with a base salary range of $156,000-$229,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits.
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical technical experience.
- 5 years of experience in JavaScript, Python, and SQL.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with any of these: BigQuery, Business Intelligence Tools, Business Data Visualization.
- Experience with story telling with data or online content production (technical blog posts, videos etc).
- Ability to contribute to open source projects.
- Ability to do public speaking or present to large audiences on technical topics.
- Ability to be an active contributor to online technology communities (e.g., Stack Overflow).
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
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 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. Chrome, Android, App Engine, HTML5, and our core Google Workspace and Ads APIs are just some of the platforms you promote and support.The Looker Developer Relations team drives the excellence and adoption of all Looker products by inspiring developers with the possibilities of Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) technology and by making all developers successful.
Looker is a unified platform that powers data experiences and delivers actionable business insights to employees at the point of decision. Looker integrates data into the daily workflows of users to allow organizations to extract value from data at web-scale.Responsibilities
- Focus on Google Cloud's Business Intelligence applications including Looker and Conversational Analytics.
- Work with Engineering, Product Management (PM), Outbound Product Management (OPM), Customer Engineering (CE), and Marketing teams to identify exciting developer use cases and advocate for external developer requirements.
- Build public content (videos, articles, demos, codelabs etc.) for external developers and users.
- Engage with external developers in live events (e.g., Google Cloud NEXT) and public forums including Cloud Community website, Github etc.
- Collaborate with team members to build maintain open source developer tools for the product.
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