Senior Software Engineer, Google Beam

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Google Beam team, which is developing a new communication technology using realistic 3D imaging and spatial audio to enhance remote interactions. The role involves writing and testing product code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code from peers, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging system issues. The position requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5 years of software development experience, experience with hardware-in-the-loop simulations and embedded systems, and experience with software design, architecture, and large-scale infrastructure.

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
  • hardware-in-the-loop simulations
  • real-time systems
  • embedded systems
  • software testing
  • software maintenance
  • software launch
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture

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 testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
  • 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture