Senior Software Engineer – Large-Scale, Impactful Systems

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

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 handle information at massive scale and extend beyond web search, inviting engineers with diverse backgrounds to contribute across information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, AI, NLP, UI, and mobile.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in object-oriented programming with Java, C++ or Python.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
• 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

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.

Skills

5 years OO programming

3 years testing/maintaining/launching

1 year design/architecture

data structures/algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

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 handle information at massive scale and extend beyond web search, inviting engineers with diverse backgrounds to contribute across information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, AI, NLP, UI, and mobile.