Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 7 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 with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
- Experience in technical leadership and influencing large engineering teams Contribution to open source projects or publications in relevant fields.
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.
The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.Responsibilities
- Understand business requirements and the changing AI landscape, and develop solutions which increase the ease of adoption of indexing solutions.
- Be data-driven and opinionated about the various features and capabilities such as experimentation, debuggability, reliability, monitoring, developer experience and cost reporting.
Lead the architecture and development of significant components within the Indexing Engine ecosystem.
- Collaborate with other engineers, Program Mangers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to define and deliver on a long-term technical roadmap for key indexing infrastructure.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers on the team.
- Contribute to the oncall rotation for live production systems.
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