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About the Role
The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers to facilitate alignment on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Develop mid-term technical roadmaps and manage project priorities to ensure deliverables meet future infrastructure needs.
- Design, test, and deploy large-scale software solutions while solving ambiguous problems with high-quality code.
- Review code and implementation practices to provide feedback on style, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
- Guide system design decisions by clarifying problems, assessing trade-offs, and ensuring scalability and semantic cohesion.
- Drive engineering excellence by defining success metrics, automating processes, and triaging system issues for resolution.
Requirements
- Programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin, or Go to design, write, test, and maintain software applications.
- Design of algorithms and data structures to improve product scale, speed, efficiency, and reliability.
- Systems architecture application to optimize system testability, performance, reliability, and cost.
- Debugging to diagnose, triage, and fix system issues via root cause analysis.
- Risk management to anticipate and assess operational, compliance, product, or program risks.
Skills
- C++
- Java
- Python
- Kotlin
- Go
- Algorithm design
- Data structures
- Systems architecture
- Debugging
- Root cause analysis
- Risk management
Location
- Google office
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience
- 6 years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering Management or a related field
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering Management or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $207,000 - $301,000
Benefits
- 20% bonus target
- Equity
- Benefits determined by role, level, and location
About the Company
- The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.