Software Engineer II, Infrastructure, Core

8 Hours ago • 1 Years + • Full Stack Development

About the job

Summary

Google's Software Engineer II, Infrastructure, Core role focuses on building the foundational technology behind Google's flagship products. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, participating in design reviews, contributing to documentation, debugging system issues, and ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience with software development (Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript), data structures, and algorithms. Experience with large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or related technologies is preferred. The Core team works on crucial technical decisions across the company, impacting product development and user experience.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 1+ year software development experience
  • 1+ year experience with data structures/algorithms
  • Code writing, review, and debugging
  • Design review participation
Good to have:
  • Master's/PhD in Computer Science
  • Experience with large-scale infrastructure
  • Experience with accessible technologies
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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
  • 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 1 year of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • 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 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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