Senior Software Engineer, Dependency Tracing

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers to join the Dependency Tracing Team within Platform Reliability Engineering to help minimize outages and improve cloud infrastructure reliability. The role emphasizes building scalable systems, collaborating across teams, and driving reliability across Google Cloud Platform.

As part of Google’s technical workforce, you will contribute to architecture, design decisions, and implementation details while maintaining a strong practice of testing and

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Testing & deployment

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .