Senior Software Engineer, Borglet

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of work experience in software development.

• 5 years of coding experience in one or more of the following languages: C++, C, or Rust.

• 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.

• Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Linux Internals, Kernel, Virtualization, C++.

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.

Borglet is an on-machine agent, a part of Borg - Google's Cluster Management System. This means that we work on one of the most impactful software at Google, that affects all companies'workloads.We work on supporting the latest kinds of workloads, hardware and security measures.The Borglet team runs as a group of small 2-3 person teams executing on various projects in all major areas of infrastructure. Each team is run separately and given a large amount of freedom, while still counting on the support of the rest of the team when necessary. Projects typically last from 6-12 months meaning you are not locked into one area for too long, but have the flexibility to move around as desired.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Own functional areas assigned.

• Understand guest (virtualized) and host (hypervisor) environments and come up with secure solutions that connect both.

• Code in C++.

• Work with peers to identify, design, create and optimize software features that run on top of Google's hardware stack.

• Lead design and build processes for infrastructure to automatically measure and detect regressions in key performance metrics at scale.

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.