Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity, Google Home

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Java).

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to define software architecture, components, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to address requirements.
• Ability to debug, triage, and fix program code or system issues (e.g., firmware, software, application, operational, process).

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.

In this role, you will help build tools and infrastructure needed for automating the releases and improve release velocity across Home products, design and enhance release management and troubleshooting tools and work with Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and Software Engineers (SWEs) on on-boarding of new binaries into the release process, to ensure that what we release to production follows standard procedures while keeping our release infrastructure scalable and simple.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team
researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make
users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a
home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

• Work with multiple teams across organizations and regions to solve technical problems that enable feature teams to ship quality code.
• Be part of a team who help build, automate, visualize and develop diagnostic tools, etc. for the product release processes.
• Build collaborations with cross-functional peers. Work with TPMs and SWEs to design scalable and uniform build and release infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot failures with our build and release infrastructure, implement solutions.
• Identify areas of improvements and automation in the release infrastructure.