Software Engineer III, Earth Engine, Cloud

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. In this role, you will work with back-end engineering in Java to build new system features and interconnect with other Google Cloud services, such as BigQuery and Vertex Artificial Intelligence (AI). You will be working with teams across Geo and Cloud and building features and agents for Google employees, researchers, and commercial customers. You will share experience across Cloud, geospatial systems, data analytics, and processing pipelines.The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

Responsibilities

• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• 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.
• Build software tooling for analysts, such as integrating the raster-centric world of Earth Engine with the relational systems and analysis models in BigQuery.
• Build enterprise-ready software which complies with the privacy, security and infrastructure management needs of Cloud products and customers.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, client application teams, and the computation back-end team, to build stacks and deliver products.