Staff Software Engineer, NodeOS

3 Months ago • 8-14 Years • DevOps • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer for NodeOS (Google's operating system), you'll lead the evolution of Node's execution model, develop core NodeOS capabilities (including open-source and Google-specific components), analyze and implement large-scale systems, and improve performance and parallelism. Responsibilities include redesigning systems, creating tests and monitoring, and working with both upstream Linux and Google solutions. This role significantly impacts Google's infrastructure and operations.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development (C/C++)
  • 5+ years testing & launching software
  • 3+ years software design & architecture
  • 3+ years infrastructure/OS development
  • Linux development experience
Good to have:
  • Master's/PhD in CS/related field
  • Technical leadership experience
  • Experience in complex organizations
  • Concurrency, multithreading, distributed systems
  • Technical Lead experience

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development including but not limited to C or C++, and experience with data structures/algorithms.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 3 years of experience developing infrastructure systems, system software, or operating systems.
  • Experience with Linux development.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization, or distributed systems programming.
  • Technical Lead experience.

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.

NodeOS is the operating system that runs Google. Based on Open Source linux, the OS has been customized to meet the scale, transparency, and performance we need to run all of Google's compute.

As part of the team, you will be responsible for critical parts of the operating system running all services at Google. You will work with both upstream Linux packages, as well as home-brew Google solutions. Our place in the core infrastructure team allows our work to have tremendous impact on the entire company and make Google engineers operational toil much smaller.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge 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

  • Provide leadership in analyzing, auditing, and evolving the overall Node execution model at the OS level to be able to drive build out of a Cloud-empowering Node.
  • Lead the development and extension of cornerstone NodeOS capabilities, including engineering into open-source aspects, Google-specific daemons, and the Linux Kernel.
  • Analyze, design, implement, automate rollouts, and troubleshoot large-scale computer systems.
  • Redesign and refactor existing systems to improve performance and parallelism.
  • Improve existing and create new integration and canary tests, monitoring, and metrics. 

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