**Minimum qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working as a technical sales engineer in a cloud computing environment, or in a customer-facing role.
- Ability to travel up to 40% of the time as required.
• *Preferred qualifications**:
- Experience with data and information management, including big data trends and issues within businesses.
- Experience in using and/or managing databases.
- Experience working with Linux and software life-cycle and build tools, and architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems.
- Knowledge of enterprise networking and identity management systems.
- Knowledge of PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, public cloud, and industry concepts.
- Ability to learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud technology space.
• *About the job**:
As a Partner Engineer, you will use the leadership and knowledge of product management, industries, software and cloud computing to design solutions and take them to market. You will drive awareness of our solutions at leading industry conferences and Google events. You will become an advisor to our partners and prospects assisting them get as much value out of our platform as possible. You will be an ally to the Partner Manager in every situation, using both their technical and business skill sets to operate as efficiently as possible. You will ensure that customer and partner success remains paramount.
From startups building their first app to billion-user consumer companies crunching big data, Google Cloud gives developers and businesses the most advanced data and analytics solution on the market, along with Google's secure, high performance infrastructure. Our team of technical account managers and software engineers work with partners across all functions to develop solutions that harness Google's planet-wide platform to solve the world's most challenging problems.
• *Responsibilities**:
- Work with Partner Managers to identify and recruit partners in the market that can deliver innovative solutions to our customers.
- Develop partners’ technical teams with business and technical competencies.
- Work with partner technical representatives in opportunities and projects, complementing their skill.
- Act as a technical advocate within Google for our partners in order to provide feedback from the field.
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.
