Job Description

### Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms



### Preferred qualifications:

• Experience driving cross-organizational technical initiatives, including collaborating with and influencing partner teams and senior leads
• Ability to prioritize and provide guidance to individual contributors when there are many competing priorities
• Demonstrated success in developing long-term technical vision and roadmaps, and leading teams in delivering high impact

About the job
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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 Kythe team develops and maintains a scalable graph-structured semantic index of source code, using the Google-sponsored Kythe open-source project that we maintain. Kythe powers cross-references and documentation hovercards to CodeSearch, Critique, Cider, emacs, vim and more, as well as enabling large scale analysis on indexed data. This team is part of the Ecosystems organization within Core Developer Software Foundations.


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.

Responsibilities
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• Define technical strategy and direction for the evolution of core infrastructure and customer solutions that aligns with the overall goals of the business. Develop the architecture, design, and implementation of features while keeping in mind priorities and quality of solutions.
• Develop partnerships across organizational boundaries to identify and prioritize strategic technical initiatives. Communicate technical decisions clearly and effectively to stakeholders including technical teams, business leaders, and users.
• Analyze and resolve complex technical problems. Serve as key individual contributor who can provide technical leadership and help solve ambiguous technical problems.
• Identify and assess potential technical risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimize their impact.
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