Full Stack Software Engineer, FrontRow Database Observability

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

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:

• Influence beyond your immediate project, identify, recommend, and execute improvements to our shared codebase. Take risks and try new things that the team hasn't done before.
• Design, implement, launch, and land features with high product excellence, high technical quality, and at high velocity. Develop large scale, user-facing applications.
• Have an opinion about how to improve the user experience. Work with your UX, Product Manager (PM), and Backend Software Engineer (BE SWE) partners to influence the direction of the product and the platform.
• Share your knowledge with your teammates to increase our collective effectiveness.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++ or Javacsript.
• Experience leading software projects and developing large-scale web applications.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working collaboratively with various partner teams such as UX designers, UX researchers, Product Managers and other Engineering teams.
• Experience working on Database tooling like Observability tools, Database IDEs, etc.
• Experience using different Cloud Databases, both Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and NoSQL and can reason about the tradeoffs between them.