Software Engineer II, Google Compute Engine

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of C++ and Go is considered significant given our current tech stack.

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 manage information at a 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.

As a part of the GCE Fleet Maintenance team, you will be responsible for improving the predictability and control customers have over planned maintenance disruptions to their Virtual Machines (VMs) in Google Compute Engine (GCE). You will work across Google to build systems and processes that manage these disruptions, ensuring a smooth and efficient maintenance experience for all customers across a wide variety of workloads, from general-purpose compute to the Google AI hypercomputer. You will be committed to delivering innovative solutions like Maintenance Block Service and Maintenance Manager, which provides customers with greater control over maintenance windows and minimize disruptions to critical workloads.Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest issues and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Develop product or system code and review code created by other developers, providing feedback to ensure adherence to best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug, track, and resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Design and implement scalable, and efficient software components for Google Cloud-based platforms, primarily within the GCE Node organization.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner, and contribute to the architectural design and technical direction of systems within the evolving Google Cloud ecosystem.