As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google Cloud, you will provide technical leadership on high-impact projects, influencing and coaching a distributed team of engineers. You'll manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing large-scale software solutions. The role requires expertise in software development, data structures/algorithms, design and architecture, and testing/launching software products. You'll work on projects critical to Google's needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects. This role demands versatility, leadership, and enthusiasm for tackling new full-stack problems. Experience in a complex, matrixed organization is preferred.
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Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Candidates will typically have 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
Typically 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
Candidates will typically have 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
Typically 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, and/or cross-business projects.
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.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.