Staff Software Engineer, App Hub

Google Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an experienced engineer to own the App Hub surface, delivering a unified experience for app-centric governance and observability. You will help design interfaces, monitor performance, and guide policy across a highly scalable, distributed system.

You will develop next‑generation technologies for billions of users, integrating AI, NLP, and large-scale storage to improve developer productivity and reliability at Google Cloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience with Google infrastructure and building scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with the life-cycle of building products that increase developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will own the App Hub surface to present a smooth, unified experience for app-centric manageability, observability, and governance.
• Develop next‑generation technologies for massive scale and high reliability across Google Cloud.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead across the stack on new problems.
• Architect data ingestion from multiple sources and real-time/offline reconciliation.
• Design operational, scalable, and resilient systems that handle failures gracefully.

Skills

Software development

Testing & launches

System design & architecture

Data structures & algorithms

Technical leadership

Google infrastructure

Distributed systems

Developer productivity

Education

Bachelor's degree or equiv

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  
• Experience with Google infrastructure and building scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with the life-cycle of building products that increase developer productivity.

About the job

App Hub aims to optimize the productivity of Google Cloud Platform application developers, application operators, and platform operators by streamlining application development, deployments, and DevOps, while abstracting cloud infrastructure primitives.
In this role, you will be responsible for the entire App Hub surface to present customers with a smooth, unified experience for app-centric manageability, observability, and governance. This includes the interfaces, performance monitoring for the application-centric view, policy and governance management, and several other evolving areas.You will develop the next‑generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. Our products need to handle information at massive scale and high reliability. You will bring fresh ideas from all relevant areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) the list is constantly growing. You will be versatile, display strong leadership qualities, mentor junior engineers, and be enthusiastic about addressing new problems across the stack as we continue to push technology forward.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting‑edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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• Model resources intricately across compute infrastructure, cloud networking, big query, agents, and more, requiring nuanced understanding.
• Ingest data from multiple sources in various forms (real‑time events, checkpoint files). This currently involves two parallel stacks for real‑time processing and offline reconciliation at both the App Hub and Cloud Asset Inventory and Search (CAIS) ends.
• Architect a system for massive scale and high throughput.
• Enrich data with product mappings, MapReduce (MR) mappings, and identities from various systems, utilizing real‑time and offline reconciliation paths to ensure data integrity, freshness, and lossless handling.
• Design a system that is operationally sound, scalable, and resilient to handle failures gracefully.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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