Senior Software Engineer, Messages Engineering Infrastructure
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 3 years of experience in testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 3 years of experience in building developer tools that improve developer velocity, code quality and code health (e.g., compilers, automated releases, code design and testing, test automation frameworks).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience in developing accessible technologies.
- Experience with carrier communications standards including SMS and RCS.
- Experience with device automation and developing test automation frameworks, for android.
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 Messages Engineering Infrastructure team makes one of the leading messaging apps in the world easy to change, hard to break, and efficient to ship. We ensure that developers working across the Rich Communications Services stack—including Android, server, web, Wear, and iOS—can move seamlessly as they deliver key features and drive the future of cross-platform messaging.
In this role, you will lead investments in tooling and infrastructure that drive the quality, efficiency, and scale of Messages engineering. You'll collaborate with other tech leads and managers in Messages to identify objectives, develop strategies to reach those objectives, and deliver high quality code in service of those objectives. You'll also mentor and develop other engineers on the team to grow team capabilities to deliver innovative solutions to world-spanning problems.
The Platforms and Ecosystems product area encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications). The products provide enterprises, and ultimately end users, the ability to utilize and manage their services at scale. We build innovative and compelling software products—from apps to TVs, from laptops to phones—that have an impact on people’s lives across the world.
In this role, you will lead investments in tooling and infrastructure that drive the quality, efficiency, and scale of Messages engineering. You'll collaborate with other tech leads and managers in Messages to identify objectives, develop strategies to reach those objectives, and deliver high quality code in service of those objectives. You'll also mentor and develop other engineers on the team to grow team capabilities to deliver innovative solutions to world-spanning problems.
Responsibilities
- Write and test product or system development code.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure 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, resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
