Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for Google Cloud in Bengaluru. The role involves developing next-generation technologies that handle information at massive scale, extending beyond web search. Responsibilities include writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code from other developers, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging system issues. Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree, 5 years of software development lifecycle experience, 3 years of back-end development (Java/API), and experience with large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems. Preferred qualifications include a Master's/PhD, 5 years of data structures/algorithms experience, 1 year of technical leadership, and experience with ML concepts/frameworks.

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

  • full software development lifecycle
  • design
  • coding
  • testing
  • maintenance
  • software development
  • Java
  • API development
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • Machine Learning concepts
  • ML frameworks
  • ML applications