Senior Software Developer, Engineering Productivity Platforms and Devices

Google Google · Big Tech · San Jose, CA +3

This role is for a Senior Software Developer focused on Engineering Productivity Platforms and Devices at Google. The responsibilities include writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code from peers, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging system issues. Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree, 5 years of software development experience, 3 years with embedded operating systems, 1 year of software design/architecture experience, and experience in areas like test automation or build infrastructure. Preferred qualifications include a Master's/PhD, more experience with data structures/algorithms, and technical leadership experience.

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
  • embedded operating systems
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • test automation
  • refactoring code
  • test-driven development
  • build infrastructure
  • optimizing software
  • debugging
  • building tools
  • testing frameworks

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
  • 3 years of experience working with embedded operating systems
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
  • Experience in one or more of the following: test automation, refactoring code, test-driven development, build infrastructure, optimizing software, debugging, building tools and testing frameworks