Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Mountain View seeks a software engineer to help build next-generation infrastructures that power billions of users worldwide. You will work on large-scale distributed systems, contribute to design and code, and collaborate across teams.

The role involves implementing robust C++ solutions, participating in design reviews, and ensuring code quality through testing and documentation. In-person interviews are typically required during the hiring process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience programming in C++.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• 2 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms in either an academic or industry setting.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Proficiency in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering.

Responsibilities

• Write 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.

Skills

C++ programming

Distributed systems

Data structures

Algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google in Mountain View seeks a software engineer to help build next-generation infrastructures that power billions of users worldwide. You will work on large-scale distributed systems, contribute to design and code, and collaborate across teams.

The role involves implementing robust C++ solutions, participating in design reviews, and ensuring code quality through testing and documentation. In-person interviews are typically required during the hiring process.