Staff Application Engineer, Google Cloud Business Platform

You lead all aspects of web development, requirements gathering, software development, testing, documentation, training, implementation, ongoing support, and maintenance for both in-house and customer-facing web applications. You will work closely with a cross-functional team of Googlers using UI and functional specs/prototypes as input. You are empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate to meet user and customer needs.

Google Cloud Business Platform's (GCBP) Finance teams enable Google Cloud's growth by delivering and managing seamless, scalable, and efficient Order-to-Cash systems and processes.

Google Cloud's scale and the variety of its offerings create unique and complex challenges in this space. This requires innovative solutions blending Google's own first-party systems and third-party enterprise systems like SAP. The team collaborates cross-functionally with Google Cloud's Ordering and Finance users and teams within GCBP. This team offers an opportunity to work on business-critical transformations that have a direct and significant impact on Google Cloud's success.

As a Staff Application Engineer, you'll act as a key technical leader and on-site engineering point of contact. You will have an opportunity to build partnerships with these business teams, understand their needs, and ensure our Order-to-Cash (O2C) systems and solutions, including SAP, provide seamless support for their critical operations.

In this role, you will represent Cloud SAP's technical capabilities and interests in cross-Product Area discussions and collaborations. You will be a technical leader with expertise in application engineering, excellent communication skills, and a passion for designing and delivering impactful solutions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000-$271,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for key areas of Google Cloud's use cases using SAP. Serve as a subject matter expert on SAP technologies, GCP infrastructure, and their interplay.
  
• Lead the design and architecture of complex, scalable, and reliable solutions for GCP's use cases and provide expert guidance and support to teams within Cloud and cross-Product Area teams on SAP, best practices, and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to code development, code reviews, and testing to ensure high-quality engineering output.
• Collaborate effectively with Product Management, other engineering teams, support to deliver customer success, and influence stakeholders across different teams and organizations to align on technical direction and best practices.
  
• Drive improvements in system design, code health, testing, and operational efficiency and a culture of continuous improvement.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or other technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 12 years of experience working with SAP ABAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
• Experience in either Order-to-Cash (O2C) business processes such as ordering, subscription management, invoicing, or business recognition.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working in an environment collaborating with multi-site engineering teams.
• Experience driving technical strategy and roadmap execution in a complex and evolving business domain.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.