Developer Relations Engineer, Google Ads API

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working with developers and developer tools (e.g., Application Programming Interface (API), Stack Overflow, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in a technical role working with API design.
• Experience working with partners on complex projects.

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.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

• Provide technical guidance to developers who use our APIs and use the knowledge built up by these interactions to help shape the product, the API and documentation.
• Answer questions from client developers who are using our APIs to get data and create their own applications.
• Work directly with developers and other stakeholders from assigned partners to answer their strategic questions and help them plan changes that utilize the API.
• Be involved with client libraries, work on migrations, and on API design.
• Collaborate with product management on communicating API changes.