Senior Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Central Fleet

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  
• 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/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  
• Experience in capacity and demand planning, supply chain operations or technical infrastructure.

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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 build software to optimize the planning, delivery, and management of Google’s fleet of machines in our data centers. You will be at the intersection of abstract compute resources and physical machines.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of a distributed software system that plans the Google fleet. Provide technical leadership on projects.
  
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions. 
  
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Learn about and utilize mathematical optimization to optimize Google resources.
  
• Learn about and help land Google data centers and hardware/networking/services. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  
• Lead a team of engineers developing key capacity planning and optimization capabilities for a shared compute fleet. Provide strategic leadership to high-impact projects with the potential to deliver efficiency improvements.

Experience Level

Senior Level