Senior Software Engineer, Performance, AI and Infrastructure

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

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• Write and test product or system development code
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience programming in C++ or Python
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products
• 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
• 3 years of experience with performance, large scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field (preferred)
• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms (preferred)
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role (preferred)
• Experience developing accessible technologies (preferred)

Skills

• Technical expertise
• Project management
• Software development
• Problem-solving
• Teamwork

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Pay

US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Full-time