Staff Software Engineer, Rust, Core Dev

Overview

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust).
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.

• Experience with Google server technologies, Google-style distributed system architectures to effectively work with customer teams.
• Experience leading infrastructure changes Google-wide or affecting changes for a large number of software engineers.
• Experience working in Rust and C++ codebases, low-level or systems programming.
• Experience as a tech lead (TL) with scoping, defining, and tracking projects with cross-team coordinated timelines.
• Understanding programming language design and compilers (LLVM and Clang).
• Ability to understand customer needs and work with partners to achieve shared goals and excellent cross-team and cross-functional collaboration.

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 this role, you will be at some of the most exciting developments in programming languages. Rust is rapidly gaining adoption not only at Google, but across the entire industry as it aligns with the industry and government interest in eliminating memory safety bugs. Achieving memory safety has become a critical goal, supported by an effort spanning several organizations.
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

• Lead the technical direction and execution of a local team of engineers. Work alongside other Team leads across geographies to help define and drive an ambitious Rust roadmap that will span multiple years.
• Work closely with customer engineering peers to identify opportunities, solve critical problems with Rust, and advance our memory safety strategy.
• Serve as a technical guide for engineers less experienced in Rust, C++, and the programming languages space and build up this expertise within the team.
• Partner with engineering manager, delegate and direct the work of engineers and keep their projects moving.
• Lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of productivity and technical excellence. Model strong teamwork and collaboration skills to serve as an example for others.

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