Software Engineer Iii, Engineering Productivity, Pixel

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

Software Engineer III role on the Google Pixel team focused on Engineering Productivity. The role involves developing and enhancing software solutions, including developer tools, to improve developer velocity, code quality, and code health. While AI/ML is mentioned as an area of interest for Google's products, this specific role is focused on general software engineering and productivity tools, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write 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

  • programming in C++, Python, Java or Go
  • building developer tools that improve developer velocity, code quality and code health

Nice to have

  • data structures or algorithms
  • performance, large scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging
  • developing accessible technologies
  • code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering

What the JD emphasized

  • 2 years of experience building developer tools that improve developer velocity, code quality and code health (e.g., compilers, automated releases, code design and testing, test automation frameworks).