Slicer Engineer, Algorithms
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in managing internal infrastructure, developer tools or distributed computing infrastructure.
- 5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
- Experience with facility power and cooling related infrastructure systems for data centers or equivalent critical, industrial automation and controls systems design.
- Experience with coding in software design.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
- Experience with development of production caching systems, such as Memcached.
- Experience with debugging and triaging issues for large-scale production systems.
- Experience with systems which involve low latency fan-out and fan-in.
- Experience managing the entire lifecycle for key strategic projects including identifying opportunities, determining the right technical solutions, leading design and implementation, and ensuring successful project landing.
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.
Slicer is Google’s foundational infrastructure that enables Googlers to build fast, efficient systems by partitioning key-value-structured application state over Borg tasks so that it can be cached in memory. Today, it balances over 8 billion RPCs/second for hundreds of teams across all product areas; it routes all “Ok, Google” requests and is a critical dependency for the top Google Cloud products.
The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on impactful projects.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
- Contribute to a supportive environment where everyone can do their best work.
- Grow and learn from exceptional infrastructure developers.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders and customers to identify and deliver projects that improve Google’s efficiency and quality of service.
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