Senior Software Engineer, Chrome Browser Infrastructure
Job Description
- Master's/PhD in CS or related field
- Cloud computing or Linux development experience
- Technical leadership experience
- Front-end and back-end development familiarity
- 5+ years software development experience
- Java and Python programming
- Experience with data structures/algorithms
- Testing, maintaining, or launching software products
- Software design and architecture 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.
- Experience with Java and Python programming languages.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience working in cloud computing or Linux development environments.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Familiarity with both front-end and back-end development.
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 ensure that code contributions from the broader open source community are safe and stable enough to release. You will be developing new features to ensure every change lands improving and maintaining Chrome's performance and quality.
Chrome is dedicated to building a better, more open web. We’re focused on making a better browser (on both desktop and mobile) to help users take advantage of all the web has to offer in a safe and secure way.Chrome is available across all major platforms — iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. We also built Chrome as an open source project so the entire web ecosystem could benefit from the latest innovations in speed, simplicity and security.
Responsibilities
- Design, guide and review systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems in Chrome release infrastructure and related systems.
- Create and maintain continuous build, test and release infrastructure, including the associated hardware, software and other dependent components across data centers.
- Contribute to documentation and user education based on system updates and user feedback.
- Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices.
- Be available on-call to troubleshoot and fix urgent issues.
