Software Engineer II, Engineering Productivity

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 or algorithms.

• 1 year of experience building developer tools (e.g., compilers, automated releases, code design and testing, test automation frameworks).

• 1 year of experience using AutoML techniques for natural language processing tasks.

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with heavy data pipelines.
• Familiarity with developing and fine-tuning LLMs.
• Familiarity with production systems/services (Maintaining high-QPS, high-availability, low-latency services).

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 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

• Develop and maintain classifiers to detect and enforce trust policies for different search products.
• Support Trust and Safety teams for removal and evaluation of trust violations.
• Work with close teams (Fringe, Safe Search) on integration within Scuti services.
• Support clients to onboard on Shield service.
• Maintain high-queries per second (QPS), high-availability, low-latency production service.