Senior Software Engineer, Borglet

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.

As a part of the Borglet team, you will work on an on-machine agent within Borg Google's Cluster Management System, one of the most impactful software systems at Google affecting all companies'workloads, supporting the latest kinds of workloads, hardware and security measures, where the team operates as small groups executing on various infrastructure projects with significant freedom and team support, with projects typically lasting 6-12 months allowing flexibility to move between areas as desired.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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

• Own assigned functional areas.
• Understand guest (virtualized) and host (hypervisor) environments and develop secure solutions that connect both.
• Develop code in C++.
• Collaborate with peers to identify, design, create and optimize software features that run on Google's hardware stack.
• Lead the design and development of infrastructure to automatically measure and detect regressions in key performance metrics at scale.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of work experience in software development.
• 5 years of coding experience in one or more of the following languages: C++, C, or Rust.
• 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing projects.
• Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Linux Internals, Kernel, Virtualization, C++.