Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, VM Manager

Minimum qualifications:

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

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 Windows, Linux system administration, and/or Enterprise applications.
• Experience architecting and developing large scale distributed systems.
  

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.

VM Manager is a suite of tools that is used to manage operating systems for large virtual machine (VM) fleets running Windows and Linux on Compute Engine. VM Manager helps drive efficiency through automation and reduces the operational burden of maintaining these VM fleets.

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

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Analyze and proactively implement improvements that increase team's velocity, product reliability and reducing resource usage.
  
• Improve production, staging and test environments.
  
• Document the changes to the system architecture so it is easily accessible to the others.
  
• Drive Technical Debt reduction and actively participate in the implementation efforts.