Staff Software Engineer, Search Platforms

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• Experience with object-oriented programming, templates, and Standard Template Library (STL).
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience working with developer-focused products and tools.
• Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders around common goals.
• Ability to exemplify Google’s values in diversity, inclusion, and respect.
• Collaborative working style and ability to lead projects with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate and influence the strategies for key product areas.
  
  

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.

The Feature Platform team plays a critical role in rewriting the Search Stack. The team builds the model for the next generation of Search features and works on building a transformative developer experience. The team focuses on building Extension Points for features, run-time isolation of features, and solving complex distributed systems problems that come with remote tier-1 APIs. Our mission is to re-define how Search features are developed/iterated/released which aligns with ambitious product goals.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, design, and build a transformative developer experience for Search developers.
• Solve problems with an increased level of ambiguity.
• Build platform systems that scale for Search product's needs. Focus on long-term thinking and quality.
• Be a catalyst who can guide an engineering team.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .