Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kraków, Poland; Warsaw, Poland.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

• 3 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.

• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, launching software products, or test automation frameworks.

• 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or related technical fields.

• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.

• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.

• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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.

Engineering Infrastructure and Operations (EIO) covers all the engineering productivity aspects of Android large screen and ChromeOS. Our mission is making the OS easy to change, hard to break and ship efficiently. We are responsible for the build, test, and release infrastructure of Android large screen and ChromeOS. This includes improving developer productivity, raising the product quality bar, improving device lifecycle efficiency, ensuring that the testing infrastructure is reliable and scalable.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will ensure the overall functionality, reliability, and performance of Android large screen and ChromeOS laptops. You will collaborate closely with the development and product management teams to deliver a consistently fast and dependable user experience.

ChromeOS delivers quality computing at scale to provide universal and unfettered access to information, entertainment, and tools. Our mission is to empower anyone to create and access information freely through fast, secure, simple, and intelligent computing.

Responsibilities

• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select 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.

• Analyze and decompose complex software systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design solutions that prioritize testability.

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.