Developer Relations Engineer

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Applicants in Washington State: 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 Francisco, CA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.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 jobPassionate 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $163,000-$237,000 + 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, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

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.

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 .