Senior Software Engineer, Core

2 Months ago • 5-8 Years • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on Google's Core team, you'll build the foundational technology behind Google's flagship products. This involves designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing software solutions. You'll participate in design reviews, contribute to documentation, triage and resolve product issues, and collaborate with peers and stakeholders. The role requires strong software development skills (5+ years experience), expertise in data structures/algorithms, experience with testing and launching software products (3+ years), and proficiency in software design and architecture (1+ year). You'll manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, contributing to critical Google projects with opportunities for team and project switching. The Core team's mandate is to impact important technical decisions across the company, building central solutions and strengthening existing systems.
Must have:
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • Data structures/algorithms expertise
  • 3+ years testing/launching software
  • 1+ year software design & architecture
  • Code writing & testing
  • Design review participation
  • Code review & feedback
  • Issue triage & resolution
Good to have:
  • Master's/PhD in CS
  • Technical leadership experience
  • Experience with accessible technologies

Job Details


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.

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.

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