Senior Software Engineer, Dependency Tracing

Google Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Dependency Tracing team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and optimize large-scale distributed systems in a cloud context. You will translate complex requirements into robust architectures, mentor juniors, and drive quality through rigorous testing.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to minimize outages, build reliable workloads, and deliver features that meet customer expectations across Google Cloud Platform products worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience.
• 3 years with large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software with 1 year in design/architecture.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level requirements into detailed technical designs.
• Write clean, maintainable code following standards.
• Develop and execute unit, integration, and system tests.
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Document specifications and implementation details.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Dependency Tracing

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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with data pipelines.
• Knowledge of SQL.
• Strong understanding and experience with production systems.
• Ability to manage issues and evolving changes in the areas of software design, integration, and infrastructure.

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.
As a part of the Dependency Tracing Team, a part of the GCPR organization within Platform Reliability Engineering (PRE), you will focus on minimizing outages due to infrastructure failures.
In this role, your mission is to offer capabilities for customers to build reliable workloads, by partnering with Cloud teams to ensure that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and products meet customer expectations and industry standards and that customers have the right features, functionality, and guidance to architect their workloads reliably. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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

• Translate high-level requirements into detailed technical designs, encompassing architecture, data structures, and algorithms.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in accordance with established coding standards and best practices.
• Develop and execute thorough unit, integration, and system tests to ensure code quality and functionality, including automated testing where applicable.
• Participate in code reviews to provide constructive feedback and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Document technical specifications, design decisions, and implementation details for future reference and knowledge sharing.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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