Senior Staff Engineer, Virtual Machines, Google Distributed Cloud
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
- Experience either developing or deploying/maintaining virtual machine environments on bare metal (VMWare, etc.).
- Experience with open-source virtual machine technologies (KVM, QEMU, Libvirt, Kubevirt, etc.) and Kubernetes development (Kubernetes Controllers, CRDs, etc.).
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 in network or storage virtual machine data plane technologies (e.g. OVS, DPDK, SRIOV, SPDK, NVMe, iSCSI, etc.).
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.In this role, you will deliver Google Distributed Cloud managed services in air-gapped and on-premises customer environments, building on enterprise-grade hardware and leveraging open source technologies to accelerate time to market.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
- Develop Virtual Machines for GDC including air-gapped, connected, and software-only environments, leveraging your background in distributed systems and experience with VMs.
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
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