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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Core

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Core

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

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Job Description

This Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Core role at Google involves designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing software solutions for Google's flagship products. The Core team builds the technical foundation, focusing on design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure. Responsibilities include writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code from other developers, contributing to documentation, and resolving system issues. The role requires expertise in large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and software development, along with experience in testing, maintenance, and launch of software products. The ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership qualities and be capable of tackling complex problems across the full stack.

Must have:

5+ years software development experience
3+ years experience with large-scale infrastructure
Experience with testing, maintaining software
Proficient in software design and architecture
Data structures and algorithms expertise

Good to have:

Master's degree in Computer Science
Technical leadership experience
Experience with accessible technologies

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, and/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.

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