Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering and Trust
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with software development in C++ programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
- 2 years of experience with Buganizer.
- 2 years of experience with system design.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 2 years of experience with SQL and data analytics.
- 1 year experience with MapReduce, Big Data, Logs Analysis, Large-scale Data Processing.
- Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for distributed systems for Information Technology (IT) or Operational Technology (OT).
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 team's mission is to raise the trust bar for our users by launching responsible personalization infrastructure for Knowledge and Information products, and improving operational privacy by committing our privacy promises to code. This team is dedicated to developing privacy-focused software infrastructure that helps with continuous compliance of user data use. Beyond compliance, this also includes the proactive development of privacy enhancements and improvements designed to better meet user privacy needs. This involves comprehensive assessments, evaluation, investigation, and recommendations to mitigate privacy threats originating from unexpected use of user data for product and user experience improvements. This work spans infrastructure-level privacy enforcements and offline data monitoring/mitigation for privacy-focused user-data handling, all to help make confident and impactful privacy promises to users and earn their trust.In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
Responsibilities
- Implement assigned components of privacy-focused infrastructure and product enhancements by writing product or system development code for tasks with minimal assistance.
- Contribute to cross-functional alignment related to assigned project components, understand how work fits in with related projects and components, including dependencies. Improve each other's work by reviewing code developed by others and providing feedback to ensure best practices.
- Triage service issues and debug/track/resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and their impact. Contribute to the technical activities beyond coding, such as reliability monitoring and alerting, integration testing, and production hygiene and support processes.
- Deliver work aligned to team or company goals in a timely and efficient manner, taking responsibility for work successes and failures. Ensure completed work is of consistently quality, writing well-factored, testable, resilient, and documented code.
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