Software Engineer, Colab

Google; United States; On-site; USD 147,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off: 20 days/year

Sick time: 40 hours/year

Maternity leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days/year

Job summary

Google's Colab team is hiring a Software Engineer to advance frontend features for data science surfaces and deliver high-quality, scalable UI components. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape an extensible frontend architecture and lead frontend modernization efforts across Colab.

The role combines on-call production support with building new capabilities for critical projects, leveraging HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript in a fast-paced, on-site Kirkland, WA

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with front-end and user interface development.
• Experience with web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Participate in a tier 2 on-call rotation to support Colab's production services.
• Contribute to the exploration, design, and implementation of a frontend modernization effort, updating our codebase to align with modern, Google-standard infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design and build an extensible frontend architecture that accelerates the development of new features.
• Develop and deliver high-quality, performance features for critical team projects.
• Design, build, and maintain robust frontend components and services for the Colab applications.

Skills

Software development

Front-end development

HTML/CSS/JS/TS

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CoLaboratory

JupyterLab

Job description

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Location

Google, Kirkland, WA, USA

Experience Level

Mid

Mid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with front-end and user interface development.
• Experience with web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Experience with software like coLaboratory, JupyterLab, or other relevant tools.

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.

In this role, you will deliver user experiences for data science and machine learning practitioners on all of our owned surfaces. We build and support the "face of the product" to our customers. We strive to delight them with intuitive, helpful, scalable, and reliable product surfaces that allow them to solve real data science problems and derive critical insights. Our team is also responsible for building the next-generation, AI-native data science tools on top of the Colab stack.

The Google Cloud AI Research team addresses AI challenges motivated by Google Cloud's mission of bringing AI to tech, healthcare, finance, retail, and many other industries. We work on a range of unique problems focused on research topics that maximize scientific and real-world impact, aiming to push the state-of-the-art in AI and share findings with the broader research community. We also collaborate with product teams to bring innovations to real-world impact that benefits our customers.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147,000 - $211,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Participate in a tier 2 on-call rotation to support Colab's production services.
• Contribute to the exploration, design, and implementation of a frontend modernization effort, updating our codebase to align with modern, Google-standard infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design and build an extensible frontend architecture that accelerates the development of new features.
• Develop and deliver high-quality, performance features for critical team projects.
• Design, build, and maintain robust frontend components and services for the Colab applications.

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Locations

Google, Kirkland, WA, USA

Mid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.