Software Engineer, GCE Fleet Deployment Platform

Staff Software Engineer, GCE Fleet Deployment Platform

Location :
Seattle, WA, USA

Experience Level :
Advanced

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in cloud compute software infrastructure, building operationally excellent services in a release engineering context, updating software state across a large fleet.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience in a large-scale distributed systems environment.

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 Software Engineer role on the Google Compute Engine (GCE) Fleet Deployment Platform team, you will have huge potential for impact, improving GCE's customer satisfaction by landing significant improvements to GCE's current deployment systems. You will own the services and tools that manage the life-cycle of VM and host software updates. You will be working along with a highly driven and talented team building innovative solutions to improve the deployment velocity, reliability, and predictability.

In this role, you will have a lot of opportunities for innovation, to devise strategies for disruption-free and pipelined releases to decrease software age in GCE and meet production uptime standards. The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and…