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Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
In-office locations: New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.
Remote location(s): United States.
Minimum qualifications:
5 years of experience as a software engineer, developer, or equivalent technical experience
Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Experience working with third-party developers
Preferred qualifications:
Experience blogging and writing technical articles
Experience building, maintaining, and optimizing responsive web apps
Experience creating scalable developer content
Experience as a frontend lead/architect, tech director, designer, or consultant working with new web platform technologies
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 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.
In this role, you will ensure our Web Vitals initiative meets developers’ needs, and provide them with the guidance and tooling needed to measure and optimize their pages, leading to higher Core Web Vitals compliance across the web.
We help the web developer ecosystem build fast, smooth, and responsive websites that delight their users. As web developers ourselves, we represent and empathize with the needs of our ecosystem, and work with Chrome Product and Engineering teams to ensure our tooling and guidance helps them succeed.
Additional Information
(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $130,000 + bonus + equity + benefits .
- Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.
Responsibilities
Advocate for the advancement of web performance to the developer community with a focus on the Core Web Vitals metrics and related performance measurement tools.
Promote the adoption of web performance best practices to developers in-person and online by presenting at conferences, blogging, writing technical tutorials, and more.
Provide technical guidance and expertise to partner teams using/integrating with Core Web Vitals and performance measurement tools (e.g., best practices, bug resolution, and topics on the roadmap that might be relevant to them).
Understand challenges for developers trying to optimize for performance, and advocate internally for their use cases by working with Product Management, Engineering, Public Relations, Marketing, Business Development, and cross-functional teams to help get developers what they need from our products.
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.
