Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Core

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

About the Job

• Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another.
• Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search.
• We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day.
• As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve.
• We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
• With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
• The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products.
• We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google.
• These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer.
• We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems.
• As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• 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.