Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Company: Google Inc.
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

Minimum qualifications: * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.* 10 years of software development experience, or 8 years with an advanced degree.* Software development experience in C/C++, C#, Java, Python or Go.* Experience with infrastructure technologies, including architecting/developing large scale distributed systems, concurrency, multithreading and synchronization. Preferred qualifications: * Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.* 15 years of professional software development experience.* Hands on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction.* Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.* Experience with virtualization/global infrastructure, load balancing, networking, massive data storage, or infrastructure security.* Experience with database internals, database language theories, database design, SQL and database programming. 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. Google aspires to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our products and technology serve. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another. Responsibilities * Help build a team and cultivate innovation by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.* Lead designs of major software components, systems, and features.* Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve the software.* Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, and coding standards.* Build our platforms, systems and infrastructure using your background in distributed systems and large-scale storage or networking systems.

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