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 Health and Home (H&H) team, part of Google's Platforms and Devices, Product Area, aims to improve lives at scale across two key domains. Health empowering longer, healthier lives via Fitbit, the Personal Health Coach, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered, actionable insights. Home: Creating a home that cares for its inhabitants and the world. In this role, you will build the Google Home app and Nest ecosystem, using Gemini to enhance automation, security, and energy management. Health and Home (H&H) integrates Artificial Intelligence (AI) and hardware/software to deliver seamless experiences for user well-being. You will empower these experiences with scalable serving and offline infrastructure, coherent developer platforms, and trusted data services.

The Health Platforms and Devices team builds innovative products and services that help our users live longer, healthier lives. We bring together the best of Google technologies and AI, health behavior science, and user-centered design to help users organize the health and wellness data, get insight from it, and take action toward their health goals. We do this with a suite of apps, services, and health wearables. We aim to make consumer health more personal, proactive, and actionable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-QPS distributed systems, reliability and low-latency performance of high-QPS distributed systems.

• Lead technical trade-off analyses to evaluate competing technologies, ensuring architectural decisions prioritize long-term scalability, system robustness, and operational efficiency.

• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

• Deliver projects for Home Infrastructure. Ensure engineering quality in the team.

• Work collaboratively with other teams in Home Infrastructure in different locations for delivering projects. Mentor junior team members in ramping up in the space.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in Java or C++.

• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, and launching infrastructure, and with software design and architecture.

• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale distributed infrastructure, or experience with storage or distributed data processing.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.