Technical Lead, Borglet

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in working with and influencing a group of people.
• Experience with software engineering.
• Experience in a security-related role, specifically in infrastructure security or distributed systems security.
• Experience with coding in an unmanaged language (e.g., Rust, C, C++).
• Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.

About The Job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

Borglet is an on-machine agent, a part of Borg - Google's Cluster Management System. This means that we work on one of the most impactful software at Google, that affects all the company's workloads. Take a look at https://bit.ly/WarsawCloudMeetupRecording5 for more insight into the challenges we are solving.

As a Technical Lead with prior experience in Infrastructure Security, you will help us drive the long term roadmap for Borg, making sure we bring significant user experience improvements to our customers as well as provide the most secure infrastructure in the world.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

As a Technical Lead with prior experience in Infrastructure Security, you will help us drive the long term roadmap for Borg, making sure we bring significant user experience improvements to our customers as well as provide the most secure infrastructure in the world.

Responsibilities

• Drive the long-term strategy for Borglet security and other core development areas.
• Work with other security-focused Technical Leads to propose and prioritize security-related initiatives for Google's fleet.
• Translate user requirements into technical features and capabilities.
• Design solutions to problems or efforts spanning through multiple systems in and outside of the team.
• Plan and oversee the execution of the implementation efforts.