Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Core

8 Hours ago • 5-8 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Core at Google, you will provide infrastructure and APIs for distributed debugging and development at a massive scale. You'll build next-generation debugging services to easily root cause events in large-scale, distributed systems while ensuring privacy. The role involves building scalable, high-performance services with minimal latency and cost-effective operation. You'll solve problems related to query latency, data freshness, and index correctness. Responsibilities also include automation, operational support, user support with system integrations, weekly on-duty rotation, and collaboration with the Privacy team to balance debug data access with user data protection. The Core team focuses on building central solutions, breaking down technical barriers, and strengthening existing systems across Google's products.
Must have:
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years experience in large-scale infrastructure
  • Experience with data structures/algorithms
  • Testing, maintaining, launching software products
  • Software design and architecture experience
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in CS or related field
  • Technical leadership experience
  • Experience with GoLang, Rust, or Java
  • Experience in Infrastructure Design or Debugging Tools
  • Experience developing 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 in 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 in Infrastructure Design or Debugging Tools or Large Scale Distributed Systems or Reliability-Centered Maintenance.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.
  • Experience in backend coding languages such as GOLang, Rust, or Java.

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.

As a Software Engineer, you will provide the infrastructure and Application programming interfaces (API) to enable distributed debugging and development across Google, at a scale incomparable to anywhere else. You will build the next generation of debugging services that will transform debugging at Google and make it easy to root cause events at large scale, distributed systems in a privacy-safe way. You will also build services that scale well and handle large workloads, and will add minimum latency to clients and will be inexpensive to operate.

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

  • Solve problems around query latency, data freshness, index correctness and serve at scale.
  • Automate and improve efficiency in operational and user support.
  • Support users with system integrations and resolve client issues.
  • Participate in Weekly Onduty rotation to address user and operational tickets.
  • Collaborate with Privacy to explore options for quick access to Debug Data while protecting Users' Data.

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