Embedded Software Engineer, Kernel Drivers and Systems Engineering

Google Google · Big Tech · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Embedded Software Engineer role focused on developing and maintaining kernel drivers for Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs)/Network Interface Cards (NICs) within Google Cloud. The role involves writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, debugging system issues, and ensuring performance and reliability of networking systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write and test product or system development code.
  2. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  3. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  4. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  5. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • programming languages
  • testing
  • maintaining software products
  • launching software products
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • C/C++

Nice to have

  • networking stack in the Linux kernel
  • Linux kernel
  • network device drivers
  • triage and debug issues
  • SmartNICs

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
  • Experience with the networking stack in the Linux kernel
  • Experience with the Linux kernel or network device drivers