Fullstack Software Engineer, Compute Engine, Google Cloud Platform

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
  
• 3 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS, or equivalent.
  
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or other technical related field.
  
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 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 Compute Front-end and Enterprise Management Solutions team owns the full-stack, user experience interfaces for Google Compute Engine, which is the largest product in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) both by business and number of users. The team owns the full customer lifecycle experience from initial assessment, migration, lift and shift, managing at scale for both host and guest OS, and helping customers modernizing into cloud native applications as part of their Cloud journey. As part of user experience we work on leveraging AI/LLM to help users achieve their goals quicker and easier. We also work on a wide range of heterogeneous workload and hardware platforms experience, like VMWare, SAP, Bare Metal offerings.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, reliable, and usable solutions that can handle big traffic of users.
• Drive critical decisions and design choices with stakeholders.
• Work closely alongside UX, PM, and backend peers to design and iterate upon features with emphasis on user experience.
• Work towards improving release stability and performance. Identify and resolve team’s bottlenecks in tools and technical processes (e.g. CI/CD pipelines).
• Maintain and improve the testability of the project, including writing and maintaining automated tests, and identifying and fixing test failures.