Senior Software Engineer, Android Kernel/Systems
Google, London, UK
Level: Mid
Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.
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 developing and deploying applications within Linux environments.
* Experience in low level programming on C or C++.
* Experience managing and maintaining production system infrastructure.
Preferred Qualifications
* Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
* 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
* 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
* Experience in Linux kernel, device drivers, and Android system programming.
Responsibilities
* Write and test 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.
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 everyday. 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.
Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.
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