Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Business Platforms

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

• Serve as the technical lead responsible for designing solutions.
• 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 or program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug, track, or resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participate in, or lead, design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Qualifications

• 10 years of technical experience in web application design and development using Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, XML, JSON and web.
• 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 1 year of experience in configuration and custom development for Client Relationship Management (CRM) modules in Salesforce using Apex, triggers, and Lightning Web Components (LWC).
• Experience in developing web applications using popular web frameworks (e.g., JSF, Spring MVC etc.).
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools.
• Experience with database, REST/SOAP API Development.

Skills

• 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.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance.
• Retailer 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: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits