Partner Solutions Engineer, Universal Commerce Protocol

Google; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring for its gTech Professional Services team in the San Francisco area. The role focuses on technical bridgework to enable retailers and platforms to integrate with Google’s commerce APIs, including UCP and Merchant APIs.

The position involves early-stage pilots, reference implementations, and developer tooling to accelerate onboarding across 35k+ ecosystem integrations, with compensation including base pay, bonus, and equity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in engineering or CS.
• 3+ years experience with client-side web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS, or HTTP).
• 3+ years experience coding in Java, C/C++, or Python.
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues for partners or customers.

Responsibilities

• Drive zero-to-one partner scoping and technical discovery for schemas and workflows using UCP.
• Provide technical reviews and integration support during staging, payload validation, and testing.
• Reproduce, isolate, and debug anomalies during live feature pilots within SLAs.
• Create synthetic testbeds, mocks, validation scripts, and integration recipes to speed onboarding.
• Collaborate with Core Engineering and Product teams across CA, London, and Zurich to test capabilities.

Skills

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

HTTP

Java

C/C++

Python

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Applicants

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.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).
• 3 years of experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python).
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues for internal/external partners or customers.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Experience managing complex technical projects, programs, or partner integrations with high ambiguity. Experience in a consulting, partner engineering, solutions architecture, or client-facing technical role.
• Experience in operations management (e.g., process improvement, operational reviews, optimizing workflows, etc.).
• Experience evaluating undefined technical requirements and independently leading technical discovery with enterprise partners.
• Experience building test automation, mock services, or synthetic e-commerce test harnesses.
• Experience with e-commerce, APIs, structured data schemas, and programming in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or Java.

About The Job

gTech’s Professional Services team takes a creative, collaborative, and customer-centric approach to provide foundational services and forward-looking business solutions to top advertiser and publisher customers. Through technical implementation, optimization, and key solutions, gTech Professional Services helps customers attain their business goals while building long-term capabilities.

Shopping Partner Engineering is the technical bridge between Google and the global commerce ecosystem. We enable retailers, aggregators, and platforms to integrate with Google’s commerce products and surfaces via the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), Merchant API, and Google Business Profile API.

Our team drives both 0-to-1 incubation and 1-to-N scaling. We lead early-stage technical pilots, build reference implementations and developer tools, and work closely with Google Engineering and Product teams to harden automated onboarding rails across 35k+ ecosystem integrations. We act as advocates of the customer and partner experience, advocating for product and tools improvements backed by data-driven insights.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $127000 - $182000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Drive zero-to-one partner scoping and technical discovery to define requirements for schemas, availability models, and multi-fulfillment workflows across emerging verticals adopting UCP.
• Offer specialized technical subject matter expertise, implementation reviews, and integration support during staging configuration, payload validation, and comprehensive partner testing.
• Reproduce, isolate, and debug technical anomalies encountered during live upper-funnel feature pilots within defined service level agreements.
• Build synthetic testbeds, reference mocks, validation scripts, code samples, and integration recipes on developers.google.com to expedite onboarding against evolving protocol schemas.
• Collaborate with Core Engineering and Product Management teams across California, London, and Zurich to test protocol capabilities and advocate for data-backed product improvements.

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 .