Senior Software Engineer, Dependency Tracing & Reliability

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

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.