Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/firmware

Google Google · Big Tech · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer role focused on embedded systems and firmware development within Google's Technical Infrastructure team. Responsibilities include writing and testing code, leading design reviews, code reviews, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging system issues. Requires significant experience in software development (C/C++), testing, software design, embedded operating systems, and large-scale network infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write and test product or system development code.
  2. Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select among 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

  • C
  • C++
  • software development
  • testing
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • embedded operating systems
  • large-scale network infrastructure
  • networking technologies
  • Ethernet switching
  • Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
  • networking protocols
  • data center networking architecture

Nice to have

  • Master's degree
  • PhD
  • Computer Science
  • Java
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • developing accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C or C++)
  • 3 years of experience with testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 3 years of experience in working with embedded operating systems.
  • 3 years of experience with building and developing large-scale network infrastructure.