Staff Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in Java or C++.
• 5 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 with storage or distributed data processing.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
• 3 years of experience in managing an engineering team.

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 across two key domains: health and home. We are empowering longer, healthier lives via Fitbit, the Personal Health Coach, and AI-powered insights and creating a home that cares for its inhabitants and the world. We build the Google Home app and Nest ecosystem, using Gemini to enhance automation, security, and energy management. H&H integrates the AI and hardware/software to deliver seamless experiences for user well-being.

The Health and Home Infrastructure team empowers these experiences with scalable serving and offline infrastructure, coherent developer platforms, and trusted data services. We maintain mission-critical, high-Queries per second (QPS) distributed systems that guarantee reliability and low-latency performance for all Home and Health 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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Poland: zł480000 - zł492000 (PLN) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Hire and grow the team in Warsaw, establish the engineering culture, and manage engineers while maintaining engineering best practices and ensuring high engineering quality.
• Develop, maintain, and ensure the reliability and low-latency performance of high-queries per second distributed systems.
• Review code and provide feedback to ensure best practices, including style guidelines, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines while managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Deliver the projects for Home infrastructure by ensuring high engineering quality and working collaboratively with teams in different locations.

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 .