Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in software engineering.
• 5 years of experience in architecting and implementing APIs and integration technologies in distributed enterprise environments using a combination of technologies, languages, or standards like REST, SOAP, GraphQL, JSON, OpenAPI, Python, Java, JavaScript, Cassandra, Kubernetes, etc.
  
• Experience with API Gateway/Management with Apigee or other API management solutions.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in implementing API Security and Threat Modeling using SAML Assertion, OAuth 2.0, etc.
  
• Experience with PHP and Drupal scripting/development.
• Expertise in private, public, and hybrid cloud design considerations and limitations in the areas of virtualization, containerization, and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), serverless, event-driven architecture, global infrastructure, distributed systems and datastores (e.g. Cassandra), load balancing, networking, and security.
  
• Familiarity with multi/hybrid cloud through Anthos or similar container management platforms.
  
• Ability to facilitate development and communication of solutions to technical and business stakeholders, with effective communication, collaboration, consensus formation, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
  

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 an API Management Engineer, you will help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Googles global network, web-scale data centers, software infrastructure, and the technology built in the cloud. Organizations and developers use Apigee to design, document, secure, deploy, scale, publish, monetize, analyze, and manage their APIs effectively. You will guide customers through product implementation and will serve as the customers primary source for expertise on all Apigee products and implementations to achieve customers project goals. Google Cloud accelerates every organizations ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Googles 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.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with customers on their API programs and produce required design specifications.
• Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and help customers go into production with quality technical solutions/implementations with on-premises and multi/hybrid cloud-based Apigee solutions.
  
• Work with geographically distributed Apigee Product/Engineering and Customer Engineering teams to drive innovation and excellence in the field of API Management using Apigee.
  
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations, adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders.
  
• Travel up to 30% of the time depending on the region.

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.