Google Developer Advocate Jobs in Austin, TX (NOW HIRING)

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience troubleshooting and advocating for customers' needs, triaging technical issues, or in software development.
• Experience working with distributed systems, distributed systems solutions, or design patterns.
• Experience with web technologies (e.g., HTTP, HTML, DNS, or TCP).
• Experience writing, reading, and debugging code in one of the following: Java, C, C , Python, or Go.
• Experience creating content for technical audiences (e.g., developer documentation, industry white papers, computer science course material, or IT administration playbooks).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with any public cloud services and infrastructure (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience with cloud computing and debugging complex workload issues across large-scale, multi-node environments.
• Experience with one or more of the following solutions: system virtualization or on-premise or hybrid cloud computing.
• Experience developing developer tools (e.g., automation, testing, or debugging).
• Experience as a system/network administrator working with Linux/Unix systems, from kernel to shell, file systems, and client-server protocols.
• Experience in crisis response or escalation management across multiple teams with the ability to influence momentum of incident response for critical customer issues.

About the job
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business - all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers - developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies - see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
As a High Touch Support Solutions Developer, you will manage customer issues and proactively help improve customer experiences. You will be a part of a global team that provides 24x7 support to help customers seamlessly make the switch to Google Cloud. In this role, you will provide a high-touch, dedicated service to customers, aiming to anticipate their needs, optimize product performance, and enable customer success.
You will focus on proactive solutions and customer-centric supportability to help avoid issues, build customer trust, and enable customers' continuous growth and long-term success on GCP. You will troubleshoot technical problems for customers through debugging, networking, system administration, updating documentation, and coding/scripting. You will make our products easier to adopt and use by making improvements to the product, tools, processes, and documentation.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
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
Canada: $138000 - $141000 (CAD) 15% bonus target equity benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities

• Develop in-depth understanding of Google Cloud's product technology and architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, and determining the root cause for customer-reported issues, building tools and diagnosis.
• Act as consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in d evelopment , sales, and customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud.
• Understand customer issues and advocate their needs with internal teams, including Product and Development teams, to find ways to improve the product and drive production.
• Work as part of a team that globally ensures 24-hour customer support, including a need to sometimes work non-standard work hours/shifts and may include weekend work.
• Work with customers on their production Google Kubernetes Engine/Anthos deployments to resolve issues and achieve product readiness, availability, and scale. Triage and manage technical escalations, platform outages, technical issues, and executive concerns.

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