Senior Software Engineer – Large-Scale Systems & Infra

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

Job summary

Google is hiring software engineers for the Geo team to build and maintain maps and related platforms such as Maps, Earth, and Street View. You will tackle large-scale system design, data storage, and performance optimization across the full stack.

You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions, participate in design reviews, and contribute to documentation while solving complex problems fundamental to user-facing mapping technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience programming in Python or C++.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.

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

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is hiring software engineers for the Geo team to build and maintain maps and related platforms such as Maps, Earth, and Street View. You will tackle large-scale system design, data storage, and performance optimization across the full stack.

You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions, participate in design reviews, and contribute to documentation while solving complex problems fundamental to user-facing mapping technologies.