Senior Software Engineer, P2020

Job description

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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 P2020 Rollouts team plays a critical role in delivering Google Cloud services to dedicated partner environments. Having successfully enabled the on-time handover of the first Google Cloud Dedicated (GCD) instance, we are expanding our efforts.

As more GCD instances are planned, we are investing in a core team to re-architect our platform. This role is key to building a system capable of managing continuous deployments of production changes across multiple, dedicated instances of the Google Cloud stack for our partners. This work is essential for scaling GCD offerings.

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

• Write and test 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.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Go, Python, or Java).
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience with large-scale distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  
• Experience in developing and troubleshooting large-scale cloud platforms.
• Experience in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• Familiarity with Go and using AI/ML to increase software engineering productivity.