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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Buyable Corpus

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Buyable Corpus

1 Month ago • 5-8 Years • Full Stack Development

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Job Description

This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on infrastructure for Google's Buyable Corpus, requiring expertise in large-scale system development and distributed systems. Responsibilities include writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, code review, contributing to documentation, debugging system issues, and managing project priorities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, infrastructure, and ideally experience with C++, data mining, or machine learning. The role involves working on projects critical to Google’s Commerce initiatives, supporting billions of daily shopping interactions.

Must have:

5+ years software development experience
3+ years building large-scale infrastructure
Experience with data structures/algorithms
Software design and architecture experience
Testing, maintaining, and launching software

Good to have:

Master's degree in CS
Technical leadership experience
C++ experience
Data Mining/Machine Learning experience

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 building and 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 or equivalent practical experience.
1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
Experience with C++.
Experience in Data Mining, Machine Learning.

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.

In this role, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

People shop on Google more than a billion times a day - and the Commerce team is responsible for building the experiences that serve these users. The mission for Google Commerce is to be an essential part of the shopping journey for consumers - from inspiration to to a simple and secure checkout experience - and the best place for retailers/merchants to connect with consumers. We support and partner with the commerce ecosystem, from large retailers to small local merchants, to give them the tools, technology and scale to thrive in today’s digital world.

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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