Senior Developer Relations Engineer, AI Data Cloud

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google Cloud Developer Relations is seeking engineers who can drive adoption of data and analytics technologies. You will create demos, samples, docs, and blog content while leading workshops to empower practitioners in building cloud analytics solutions.

You will partner with product teams to capture feedback, influence roadmaps, and represent developers' needs across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of work experience in a technical role.
• 2 years of experience with software/data engineering concepts.
• 1 year experience with AI/Agentic frameworks (e.g., MCP).

Responsibilities

• Advocate for Google Cloud data and analytics products to foster developer adoption and success.
• Create informative technical assets, including demos, code samples, documentation, and blog posts, to boost awareness.
• Develop and lead technical workshops enabling practitioners to build and operationalize cloud analytics solutions.
• Engage third-party communities and engineering teams to drive developer momentum and gather key product feedback.
• Represent community needs internally to influence Google Cloud product strategy with cross-functional teams.

Skills

5 years technical experience

2 years data engineering concepts

1 year AI/Agentic frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of work experience in a technical role (e.g., software engineering, solutions consultant, etc.) or equivalent technical experience.
• 2 years of experience working with software and data engineering concepts and frameworks.
• 1 year experience working with current AI and Agentic frameworks (e.g., MCP, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with on-premise or cloud technologies data.
• Experience working directly with customers, partners, or third-party developers, and advocating or mentoring for new and existing technologies and programming languages.
• Ability to take ownership of solutions and exert influence without authority.

About the job:

Passionate people are everywhere at Google. In 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 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.

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.

Our team creates the magic that enables builder and developer awareness and adoption of the Data and Analytics platform in Google Cloud. Our core mission is to enable successful adoption and implementation of data in our users' infrastructure and applications. Everything from creating content like blogs and videos, to working with product and engineering on how to make our products better drives this goal. We represent our users' voices internally while teaching externally.

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

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities:

• Advocate for Google Cloud data and analytics products to foster developer adoption and success.
• Create informative technical assets, including demos, code samples, documentation, and blog posts, to boost awareness.
• Develop and lead technical workshops enabling practitioners to build and operationalize cloud analytics solutions.
• Engage third-party communities and engineering teams to drive developer momentum and gather key product feedback.
• Represent community needs internally to influence Google Cloud product strategy with cross-functional teams.