About the role

What will you do at Google?

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

* 2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting

large-scale distributed systems.

* 1 years of experience with software development in one or more programming

languages.

* Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance, and the willingness

to undergo a polygraph.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.

* 2 years of experience working with algorithms, data structures, complexity

analysis and software design.

* 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.

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

be a part of a major engineering-driven transformation
for building and securing sovereign cloud platforms. You will ensure our systems
deliver reliability and operate effectively within secure environments. You will
use your experience running distributed systems to drive insights and new
technology that improves the reliability, efficiency, and simplicity of
operational stack, working to eliminate systemic toil and enforcing long-term
architectural excellence. You will shape the future of critical public sector
services and solve problems at Google scale.
Google Public Sector
[https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/public-sector/#:~:text=We're%20committed%20to%20advancing,%2C%20research%2C%20and%20edtech%20companies.]
brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with
solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States
public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we
continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex
needs of local, state and federal government and educational
institutions.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related
skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Own the entire life-cycle of Google Public Sector air-gapped services from
inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
* Support services before they go live through activities such as system design
consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning,
and launch reviews.
* Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring
availability, latency, and overall system health.
* Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve
systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
* Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Which skills does this role require?

Distributed systemsSoftware developmentComplexity analysisPublic SectorDistributed SystemsTop Secret/SCIAutomationIncident ResponseCapacity PlanningLatencyAvailabilityAir-gappedGoogle Public Sector

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