Senior Software Engineer, Borg Accelerators

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.
  
• 5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  
• Experience in C++, Linux, and distributed systems.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• Experience in concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization.
  
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
  

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 Cluster Management (Borg) team is responsible for critical software that configures and runs Google data centers. This team works on various aspects of the stack, starting with node agent, going through control planes, workload optimization engines, and finishing at fleet-wide, single pane of glass UIs spanning the planet-scale distributed computing system.

In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing, designing, and implementing features affecting all services at Google. You will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Write 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.