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.
Requirements
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- Experience with C++.
- Experience developing a client application for various operating systems and with codebases that aim at multiple platforms.
- Experience with open-source projects.
- Experience with platform integration.
Responsibilities
- Integrate Platform, including tying in with new and existing OS features, interfacing with OS-specific services, and matching general expectations for consistency on the platform.
- Work to improve Chrome’s speed and responsiveness, and to reduce power consumption.
- Debug Low-level to uncover operating system-specific and general Chrome bugs.
- Drive growth through aimed changes that improve the user experience.
- Participate in an open-source community, where bug reports and code contributions may come from people external to Google.
- You will do engineering work to improve performance and platform integration, to fix Windows-specific issues, to adapt to the changing Windows landscape, and to drive growth through Windows-specific feature development.
- You will also do new feature development, and support feature development driven by other groups within Chrome through design and implementation.
Other
- display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
- Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
