Senior Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, VMware Engine

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

• Experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role

• Experience programming in Java, Python, or Go

• Experience leading system design activities

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with VMWare in enterprise environment

• Experience leading system design activities in cloud technologies

• Experience with cloud-native application development using open-source building blocks (e.g., Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Kafka, Cassandra, Kong etc.)

• Experience with Kubernetes, GKE, or similar technology

• Experience with public cloud, especially Google Cloud Platform

• Ability to desire to learn new technologies, languages, and tools on short notice

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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 Google Cloud VMware Engine enables customers running on-premises VMware workloads to seamlessly migrate to Google Cloud without having to re-architect or refactor their applications. Leverage the value of the existing VMware investments while maintaining operational continuity and avoiding data center management, hardware refreshes, and procurement cycles.

Our team is mainly focused on control plane development using Google tools and standards with the aim of eventual merging of stacks with internal efforts.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) service control plane.
• Work on migrating features from pre-acquisition stacks to the internal Google stack.
• Investigate, debug, and root cause customer issues in the owned code.
• Collaborate with other teams and functions, as well as potentially external partners.
• Contribute to growth of the product creatively.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.