Senior Staff Software Engineer, Looker
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in C++.
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
- Experience with reliability and business intelligence.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
- 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
- Experience with data warehousing and databases.
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.This position is for a technical lead role in Looker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP's) Business Intelligence (BI) offering. Looker provides semantic modeling, visualizations and dashboarding, the ability to embed these into standalone applications, and other key BI capabilities and is a keystone product in GCP's Data Analytic's portfolio. Looker has several opportunities and long-term challenges to overcome in the next few years and needs seasoned leaders.
In this role, you will be helping Looker improve it's reliability and operational excellence.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge 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
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
- Contribute with scope across several project areas in Looker. A focus on improving reliability and operational excellence (debuggability, monitoring, and so on).
- Lead some projects and contribute to our codebase, while also growing and influencing the Looker engineering team as a whole.
- Contribute to strategic direction for the organization, working closely with Product Manager on defining product direction.
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