Staff Software Engineer, GCP API Platform

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. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the technical outlook and architecture for GCP's core API Platform. You'll lead the design and development of highly scalable, available, and performant global backend systems, making critical architectural decisions to ensure robustness and low latency. Advocating reliability best practices, you will instill comprehensive testing, monitoring, and automated recovery mechanisms. You will lead performance optimization efforts, mentor engineers, and set high technical standards through design and code reviews. Collaborating across foundational cloud teams, you will advocate the safe integration and deployment of new capabilities, handling complex and ambiguous problems to shape the future of our producer platform.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience building, testing, and maintaining distributed backend systems or micro services in production.
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, and concurrency, and experience programming in one or more general-purpose languages (e.g., Go, C++, Java, Python).
• Experience in Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, and DevOps

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Technical lead experience working with 3 or more engineers across organizations.
• Experience with Go, gRPC, Spanner, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment