Senior Software Engineer, Dependency Tracing

On-site in London·Added 1 month ago

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Overview

Requirements

Work on-site in London
No relocation package mentioned.
Have 5+ years of experience
Senior-level role.

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

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 with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with data pipelines.
Knowledge of SQL.
Strong understanding and experience with production systems.
Ability to manage issues and evolving changes in the areas of software design, integration, and infrastructure.

The role

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 part of the Dependency Tracing Team, a part of the GCPR organization within Platform Reliability Engineering (PRE), you will focus on minimizing outages due to infrastructure failures.

In this role, your mission is to offer capabilities for customers to build reliable workloads, by partnering with Cloud teams to ensure that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and products meet customer expectations and industry standards and that customers have the right features, functionality, and guidance to architect their workloads reliably.Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's 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

Translate high-level requirements into detailed technical designs, encompassing architecture, data structures, and algorithms.
Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in accordance with established coding standards and best practices.
Develop and execute thorough unit, integration, and system tests to ensure code quality and functionality, including automated testing where applicable.
Participate in code reviews to provide constructive feedback and ensure adherence to best practices.
Document technical specifications, design decisions, and implementation details for future reference and knowledge sharing.

Hiring process

4 steps3 interviewsa task to do6–8 weeks in all

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Assessments
Online test · Not every role
You may be asked to take the Google Hiring Assessment (workstyle skills) and, for some roles, role-related assessments such as a coding exercise.
Recruiter conversations
With a recruiter · Phone call · 1–2 sessions
One or two shorter conversations assessing key skills, sharing information about the organisation and team, and asking about your preferences such as location.
Project work
In your own time · Not every role
For some roles, a small project before interviews: a case study, writing or code samples.
Interviews
With a rotating cast of Googlers
A panel of structured interviews, over video or in person, with a rotating cast of Googlers; open-ended role-related questions scored against the same rubric for every candidate, no brainteasers.
Decision and offer · With a recruiter

Structured interviews: every candidate for a role is scored against the same rubric; no brainteasers.
AI tools are not permitted during interviews.
For some roles, pre-selected interviews happen virtually before final interviews onsite.