Senior Software Engineer, Workspace, Cloud, Infrastructure
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In-office locations: Raleigh, NC, USA; Durham, NC, USA.
Remote location(s): Colorado, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in Java and C++.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
- Experience designing, developing, and optimizing relational database schemas and data models.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- Experience writing detailed design documents and leading design reviews.
- Experience programming in Kotlin.
- Familiarity with technologies similar to Google's infrastructure (e.g., microservices frameworks like Pod, Spanner, Pub/Sub systems like Goops).
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 Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of significant features and services within the Async Media Platform, taking full ownership of project outcomes and driving them from conception to landing, often with multi-quarter scope.
- Own and drive the design of complex system components and features, often with ambiguous requirements, while proactively researching solutions and making technical trade-off decisions.
- Identify, scope, and solve complex technical problems, ambiguities, and risks across the entire system, anticipating and designing solutions to prevent future issues.
- Drive improvements in the reliability, scalability, performance, and engineering excellence of asynchronous media processing systems, including the design of robust monitoring and diagnostic strategies.
- Mentor engineers on the team by providing technical guidance, code review feedback, and design input, while also helping set the technical direction and priorities for the team's work.
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