Software Engineer III, Fuchsia Kernel

Google • Seattle, WA

3h

About The Position

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 manage information at a 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 evolve Zircon to meet Fuchsia's growing needs by developing system calls, virtual memory management, schedulers, and support for multiple instruction set architectures (aarch64, x86-64, etc). You will work on the hard-software interactions at the lowest levels, boot Fuchsia into userspace and emphasize testing, debugging and root cause analysis to ensure stability and performance.The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in managing internal infrastructure, developer tools or distributed computing.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with concurrency, performance analysis, unit and integration testing, debugging, and analyzing low-level system failures.
• Experience with low-level systems programming along with writing kernel code for a general purpose operating system.
• Experience in professional coding with C++ and assembly.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features for memory management, scheduling, and other core kernel functionality.
• Design and implementation of kernel APIs used by Fuchsia userspace components.
• Improve testability of the kernel internals and interfaces.
• Collaborate with Fuchsia developers to understand their needs from Zircon.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level