Software Engineer II, IPGeo

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++, C, Python).
• 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• 1 year of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 1 year of experience with FlumeC++, Rasta, Mendel.
• 1 year of experience with data processing.
• 1 year of experience with quality focused approach, ML, geo, and data privacy.

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.

Most systems at Google rely on knowing the user's location on some level, be it setting the default language, returning the most relevant search results, enforcing embargo or license restrictions, showing the best ads and many other usecases.

IPGeo maps IP addresses to real world locations and thus provides rest of Google with a hard to spoof location.

Our team is to deliver large impact by improving the IPGeo index quality and influence the life of everyday users by improving their Google experience. We also operate infrastructure to support the significant needs of the index building pipeline and serving systems and work with many client teams across the company to better improve end-user experience on all Google products.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Write product or system development code. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Make improvements on the existing system to address known failure scenarios, while in the longer run, analyze patterns, run evaluations, and debug bug reports to discover new failure cases.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Make changes to the larger configuration of the system, either to optimize its performance or to support the needs of your quality changes.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .