Software Engineer, Borglet, PhD, Early Career

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• Experience working with data structures or algorithms during coursework/projects, research, internships, or practical experience in school or work (e.g., open-source coding).
• Experience working with Linux, Kernel and Virtualization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Professional coding experience in unmanaged languages (e.g., Rust, C, C++).
• Experience in concurrency, multi-threading, and synchronization.
• Understanding of the Linux ecosystem.

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.

As a key member of a small and versatile team, you design, test, deploy and maintain software solutions.

Borglet is 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 company's workloads. We work on supporting the latest kinds workloads, latest hardware and latest security measures.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Code in C++ (learn if you don't have experience).
• Understand guest (virtualized) and host (hypervisor) environments and come up with secure solutions that connect both.
• Work with peers to identify, design, create, and optimize software features that run on top of Google's hardware stack.
• Develop, test, integrate, and release these solutions.
• Design and build 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.