Software Engineer II, High Availability Controller

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 mission of the Google Compute Engine (GCE) High Availability Infrastructure (HAI) team, responsible for the HA Controller, is to enable Google Cloud customers to run their mission-critical stateful workloads with high availability and business continuity on Google Compute Engine.
We aim to achieve this by building and maintaining the HA Controller service that:

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code. 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.
• Build solutions in Java to provide high availability and automated failover orchestration for external customers' GCE workloads. Implement, test, deploy, and maintain the highly reliable HA Controller system on Google Cloud.
• Participate in the analysis and design of high availability solutions using the HA Controller for Google Cloud customers.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
  
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with system architecture, distributed systems, object-oriented analysis and design.
• Experience with Java.