Software Engineer III, Search Product Analytics

Google•Mountain View, CA

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 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. The Search Product Analytics team helps build and improve the end-to-end metrics and analysis tooling solutions that drive understanding and development for search products. Our team partners closely with Product and Data Science teams in search to ensure accurate metrics and tooling are available to inform critical product decisions. In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
Experience with large-scale data processing.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
Experience developing accessible technologies.
Experience in designing and implementing large-scale data pipelines or investigative tools using SQL, Go, or C++, with familiarity in distributed data processing frameworks such as Flume.
Experience with quality analysis and iteration, including metrics development and analysis, good reporting and data summarization skills.
Familiarity with large-scale data processing and pipeline technologies.

Responsibilities

Write product or system development code.
Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
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.