Senior Software Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud Hosted, Infrastructure

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Develops next-generation technologies for Google Cloud, focusing on infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale system design. This role involves writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, and debugging system issues.

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
  • software testing
  • software maintenance
  • software launching
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture
  • Operating Systems
  • Linux distributions
  • package management
  • Kernel updates
  • kernel configuration management toolings

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 with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture
  • 3 years of experience with Operating Systems
  • Experience building and maintaining Linux distributions (package management, Kernel updates, kernel configuration management toolings)