• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software for Google's large-scale distributed tracing systems.

• Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners to deliver new features and enhancements to the tracing infrastructure, ensuring high quality, performance, and scalability.

• Contribute to the technical outlook and roadmap for the evolution of tracing tools to meet emerging needs, including those from AI/ML and agentic workflows.

• Analyze and optimize the performance and efficiency of tracing components and data pipelines. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex issues within the tracing infrastructure.

• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions. Write and maintain clear technical documentation.

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.

Our mission is to empower engineers with exceptional tracing and debugging to build reliable services at scale.

Our core system, Sherlog, processes petabytes of data daily and supports teams like Gemini, Search, YouTube, and Waymo.

If you're passionate about scalable distributed systems and AI-driven development, join us!

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.

Only applications of candidates with Mexican citizenship will be evaluated for this role in compliance with the provisions of Article 7 of the Federal Labor Law.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in in one or more programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Java, Go).

• Experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.

• Experience with debugging/troubleshooting.