Software Engineer II, Google Notifications
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems and microservices.
- Experience with profiling and optimizing backend performance.
- Familiarity with database technologies (e.g., Spanner, Bigtable) and designing scalable data models.
- Strong understanding of networking protocols, RPC frameworks (e.g., gRPC, Stubby), and concurrent programming.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a fast-paced environment.
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.
The Google Notifications Team (GaNT) builds the infrastructure that delivers billions of push and in-app notifications daily across major Google products including Search, YouTube, Gemini, Photos, and Maps. We aim to build a highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency notifications backend.
The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency distributed backend systems for the Google Notifications Platform.
- Ensure the reliability and scalability of the notifications infrastructure serving billions of users.
- Write robust, clean, and testable code in primarily C++, Java, Go, or Python.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to integrate backend services with various Google products.
- Troubleshoot, profile, and optimize backend systems, including databases, caching layers, and RPC services to meet stringent performance requirements.
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