Google is looking to solve the problem of ensuring reliability, uptime, and fast rate of improvement for its services, both internally critical and externally-visible systems, by building and running large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
Requirements
- 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages during coursework/projects, research, internships, or practical experience in school, work, or Open Source projects.
- 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field.
- Expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design.
- Experience with optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation.
- Knowledge of large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
Responsibilities
- Write product or system development code.
- 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.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field.
- 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages during coursework/projects, research, internships, or practical experience in school, work, or Open Source projects.
- 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
- Ability to work in a blame-free environment and collaborate with people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
