Staff Software Engineer, Woodshed, Core

3 Months ago • 8-8 Years • Backend Development • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in building the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. The Core team develops the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent user experiences, driving innovation across Google's products. You will work on high-impact projects, collaborate on roadmap planning, manage project priorities, and ensure timely delivery of deliverables. You will also partner with infrastructure and client teams to guide integrations. You will have the opportunity to manage a small team, review designs and codes for quality, and contribute to the overall technical direction of Google's core infrastructure.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • Experience with data structures and algorithms
  • 5 years of experience testing and launching software products
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture
  • Experience developing software applications using C++
  • Experience with object-oriented programming, templates, and STL
Good to have:
  • Experience in developing backend, infrastructure-oriented systems
  • Strong cross-functional team collaboration skills
  • Experience coordinating work between diverse partners

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • Experience developing software applications using the C++ programming language.
  • Experience with object-oriented programming, templates, and the Standard Template Library (STL).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in developing backend, infrastructure-oriented systems.
  • Strong cross-functional team collaboration skills and coordinating work between a diverse set of partners.

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.

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

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects, collaborate on planning roadmap, manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Partner with infrastructure and client teams to guide integrations.
  • Partner with infrastructure and client teams to guide integrations.
  • Manage a small team, and review designs and codes of other engineers for quality and correctness.

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