Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Observability, Uptime Monitoring

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  
• Experience with Google privacy and security infrastructure (e.g., Gin, RpcSecurityPolicy, and IAM).
  
• Knowledge of distributed systems and observability concepts.
• Passion for Observability and helping Cloud developers and operators.

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.

Cloud Observability within Google Cloud Platform enables GCP customers to manage reliable systems at global scale. The team designs and builds services that empower GCP customers to monitor systems. This team’s mission is to provide customers with an easy way to test the availability, consistency, and performance of their services, applications, web pages, and APIs.

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

• Provide technical guidance, leadership, and mentorship to a team of engineers.
• Transition project ownership for Uptime Monitoring to the team.
  
• Establish and maintain technical standards, ensuring code quality, reliability, and performance.
  
• Engage with product managers and other engineering teams to align with overall Cloud Observability product goals and strategies.
  
• Communicate technical details, progress, and roadmaps to stakeholders across different levels of the organization.