Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge Platform

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems or back-end infrastructure.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  
• Experience in information retrieval, search relevance, data indexing, or knowledge graphs
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
  

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 Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) powers Google’s internal search engine and intranet. Our mission is to organize Google's internal knowledge and make it instantly accessible to all Googlers. We build the core infrastructure, knowledge graphs, and search capabilities that employees rely on daily to find code, documents, and tools.

In this role, you will address large-scale engineering challenges, leading to the design of highly scalable distributed systems and optimizing search relevance. You will accelerate productivity and innovation across all of Google.

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 deploy scalable back-end infrastructure and search ranking models for Google's internal search engine.
• Lead the architecture of complex distributed systems, optimizing for performance, indexing speed, and high availability.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners (product manager, UX, and other engineering teams) to define product strategy and technical roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership by driving engineering best practices, conducting design reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Build and scale Google's internal search engine. Address complex distributed systems challenges and enhance search relevance, directly empowering Googlers worldwide to instantly find the information, code, and tools they need. Shape the core infrastructure of Google's internal knowledge ecosystem, driving productivity and innovation across the entire company.