Senior Software Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud Air Gapped, Engineering Productivity

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Google Distributed Cloud Air Gapped, Engineering Productivity team. The role involves developing next-generation technologies at massive scale, focusing on areas like distributed computing, system design, networking, data storage, security, AI, and NLP. Responsibilities include writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code from peers, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging product or system issues. The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5 years of software development experience, 3 years with embedded operating systems, 3 years testing/maintaining/launching software products, and 1 year of software design/architecture experience. Preferred qualifications include a Master's or PhD, 5 years with data structures and algorithms, and 1 year in a technical leadership role.

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
  • testing software products
  • maintaining software products
  • launching software products
  • software design
  • software architecture

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies