Staff Debug Architect, Pixel System Tracing & Observability

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Pixel System Debug Architecture in Mountain View, CA. You will drive end-to-end debug architecture across firmware, OS, and cloud analytics, bridging hardware and software to build triage pipelines and high-fidelity trace infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Silicon, Hardware, Firmware, OS, Security, Privacy, Product, and Cloud teams to ensure robust debugging hooks and crash resilience from day one.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience with software debugging/troubleshooting.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C, C++, or Rust.
• 3 years of experience with embedded software design and architecture.
• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience in embedded software engineering, system software architecture, or platform debug roles.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
• Experience delivering system debug, tracing, or telemetry architectures for high-volume consumer hardware products.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the cross-functional debug and tracing strategy across all software layers, spanning low-level firmware/RTOS, host OS, connectivity stacks, and application layers.
• Design distributed tracing, crash collection, and state synchronization mechanisms.
• Define post-mortem crash dumping, watchdog managing, and clean reboot/recovery flows for single-device and multi-device failure scenarios.
• Define and enforce comprehensive PII managing policies, data sanitation, redaction, and compliance frameworks for debug artifacts collected from internal test and production devices.
• Drive requirements for automated log parsers, post-mortem analysis tools, and fleet-wide observability dashboards to accelerate root cause analysis (RCA).

Skills

Software development

Software debugging

C/C++/Rust

Embedded software design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD

Job description

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Pixel System Debug Architecture in Mountain View, CA. You will drive end-to-end debug architecture across firmware, OS, and cloud analytics, bridging hardware and software to build triage pipelines and high-fidelity trace infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Silicon, Hardware, Firmware, OS, Security, Privacy, Product, and Cloud teams to ensure robust debugging hooks and crash resilience from day one.