Senior Software Engineer

Google Google · Big Tech · Pittsburgh, PA +1

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop next-generation technologies that impact billions of users. The role involves working on projects at massive scale, potentially touching areas like information retrieval, distributed computing, AI, and NLP. Responsibilities include writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code, contributing to documentation, and debugging system issues. Requires a Bachelor's degree, 5 years of OOP experience (Java, C++, Python), 3 years of software product experience, and 1 year of software design/architecture experience. Preferred qualifications include a Master's/PhD, 5 years of data structures/algorithms experience, 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

  • object-oriented programming with Java, C++ or Python
  • testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • software design and architecture

Nice to have

  • data structures/algorithms
  • technical leadership role
  • developing accessible technologies