Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Observability

Job description

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 focus on providing scalable, and developer-friendly client infrastructure. We believe platform work is only complete when it meets the needs of our most demanding Google customers, making ease-of-use, performance, and customization non-negotiable requirements.

Our internal performance and health monitoring UIs are built on standard web technologies and are used by first-party applications to debug cross-platform issues like crashes and latency.

You will help Google teams build and ship highly scalable, performant applications.

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

• Improve the performance and reliability of large-scale applications by developing and enhancing diagnostic analysis and metric monitoring tools.
• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack software solutions, utilizing technologies across backend servers, SQL databases, Web UIs, and data visualization.
• Collaborate directly with core engineering and product teams to drive performance and reliability across critical applications and mobile infrastructure.
• Solve technical problems within the user analytics space to deliver high-impact, demonstrable improvements for end-users.
• Mentor team members and actively participate in knowledge-sharing to foster a collaborative engineering environment.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in software development, with experience in building web-based applications.
• Experience designing software systems, including requirements gathering, analysis, and design.
• Experience in the Java programming language.
• Experience programming in Kotlin.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Java, Kotlin, Full-Stack development.
• Experience building Data Processing pipelines.